Amy Cater

Solicitor - Partner and Solicitor

SRA ID: 375754

Amy is a Partner & Solicitor at Tozers and leads our specialist Planning team as well as working as part of our award-winning Parks team. Recently recognised in the 2023 Legal 500 directory, Amy and her team were noted as a "firm to watch" with their top-rated planning work. Since starting at Tozers Amy has grown the firm’s Planning team, advising on a diverse range of planning matters, working alongside caravan park and leisure businesses, residential developers, private individuals, local authorities, and wildlife trusts. Amy qualified in 2007 and has over 15 years’ experience in both the public sector and private practice having worked as a planning solicitor in a local authority for several years and having previously trained at a leading law firm in London. This broad experience on ‘both sides of the fence’ provides Amy with an ability to navigate the intricacies of the planning system and local government administrative law. Amy advises on a broad range of planning and licensing matters across England and Wales, including both contentious and non-contentious work. Working alongside colleagues across the firm, including Litigation, Parks, Residential Property, Commercial, Charities, and Wealth Management, Amy provides advice on: -Preparing planning applications and planning appeals -Lawful development certificate applications and appeals -Enforcement cases -Section 106 obligations for commercial and residential developments including affordable housing -Judicial Review -Footpath diversions and Highway Agreements -Neighbourhood Planning -Alcohol, Entertainment and Gambling Licensing -Statutory Nuisance Amy edits Butterworths Planning Law Service on the subject of Caravans and is joint editor of the Mobile Homes, Caravans and Campsites section of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents alongside Managing Partner, Paul Kelly.