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Winners of The Legal 500 UK 2018 and 2017 PETER VILLAGE qc ‘Real Estate, Environmental and Planning Set (Call 1983, Silk 2002) of the Year’ and the Chambers UK Bar Awards ‘Environmental and Planning Set of the Year’ Peter “remains a go-to presence at the bar” in planning and in 2019, 2018 and 2015, the team at 39 Essex environmental law, and Chambers consists of leading practitioners associated judicial review who are widely regarded for combining a strong and commercial law cases, academic background with pragmatism and particularly in significant versatility. We operate from offices in , residential and retail cases. Manchester, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, His planning practice covers the full range of enabling us to service our clients’ requirements developments including residential, retail, airports and both nationally and internationally. infrastructure projects. He played a central part in the most important planning litigation of recent years – CALA Homes – and masterminded the successful Our members offer expertise in the full range of challenge to the Secretary of State’s decision to planning, environmental and property law at all revoke Regional Strategies (CALA No 1). Peter was levels of call and can draw on the strength of recognised by Chambers & Partners as ‘Planning and chambers in public, energy, commercial and civil Environment Silk of the Year’ in 2012. liability law (including local government probity issues) to provide comprehensive advice across all areas. Other relevant experience includes EU, international, tax and criminal law. THOMAS HILL qc Key Contacts: (Call 1988, Silk 2009) MICHAEL KAPLAN Senior Clerk Tom’s practice has focused [email protected] on planning law and related fields for the past 25 years. He Tel: 020 7634 9076 | Mobile: 07775 997 230 has particularly specialised ANDREW POYSER in infrastructure work and Deputy Senior Clerk has longstanding clients in [email protected] the airport, port and energy Tel: 020 7832 1190 | Mobile: 07921 880 669 sectors. He also has very extensive experience of housing and mixed use development, including urban ELLIOTT HURRELL regeneration schemes and associated compulsory Practice Manager acquisition, with many longstanding private and public [email protected] sector clients in this field. His practice embraces public Tel: 020 7634 9023 | Mobile: 07809 086 843 inquiry and High Court work. He is recommended in Chambers UK and The Legal 500 for Planning Law. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 2

RICHARD HARWOOD NIGEL PLEMING qc obe qc (Call 1971, Silk 1992) (Call 1993, Silk 2013) Nigel specialises in public law, Richard specialises in planning, including environment and environment, public and art law, planning law. He has advised appearing in numerous leading governments, private clients cases including SAVE Britain’s and NGOs for many years, in Heritage, Thames Tideway Tunnel, England and Wales and abroad Chiswick Curve, Dill v SoS and on environment issues, and, Holborn Studios. Recent cases include housing, retail, occasionally, on planning matters. He has appeared minerals, environmental permitting, nuisance, development as counsel in numerous environment and planning consent orders, and development plans. He is a case cases, at all levels. He was named as ‘Planning and editor of the Journal of Planning and Environment Law and Environment Silk of the Year’ in the 2010 Chambers the author of Planning Permission, Planning Enforcement Bar Awards, and ranked in the first tier in Environment (3rd Edition pending) and Historic Environment Law and in The Legal 500 and Chambers UK. co-author of Planning Policy. He is also a member of the Bar Library, Belfast.

JOHN STEEL qc (Call 1978, Silk 1993) BRIAN ASH qc (Call 1975, Silk 1990) John’s main areas of practice are planning, aviation, compulsory Brian is described in the purchase, property, environmental directories as an “exceptional and sports law. He is cited as …he possesses a recommended leader by the fantastic people skills and current editions of Chambers UK attracts instructions as a and The Legal 500. His planning consequence of his bright and and environmental law practice has encompassed the inspector-friendly disposition”. full range of developments, including major infrastructure, He practises in the field of planning, compulsory housing, retail, business, leisure, minerals and waste. purchase, local government and highway law together Recently he has been engaged in sports development and with a broad range of environmental, public law PSPOs preventing touts ooerating at racecourses and and judicial review cases, appearing in the Lands sports grounds. Tribunal, the High Court, Court of Appeal and House of Lords. Brian has appeared at a substantial number and variety of planning inquiries including; Stansted, Heathrow T4 and T5 and the London Heliport. Brian has also appeared at several of the major highways WILLIAM NORRIS qc inquiries including M25, M20, M3 and M40 MSAs and many major retail inquiries. (Call 1974, Silk 1997) William has developed a specialist practice in environment and planning law. He has extensive experience in onshore and offshore wind farms and other renewable energy developments in England and Scotland, in related tort claims and other judicial review claims in an environmental context. William is recommended in The Legal 500 for Planning Law. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 3

TIMOTHY LYONS qc PAUL STINCHCOMBE qc (Call 1980, Silk 2003) (Call 1985, Silk 2011)

Timothy combines a broad Paul was called to the Bar in practice which includes a 1985 and built up a substantial considerable amount of tax and practice in planning, public EU law with practical experience and environmental law before of planning law and judicial becoming an MP in 1997. When review. He acts on behalf of both in the House of Commons developers and local authorities. Paul served on the Home His background has ensured that his opinions on the Affairs Select Committee, the Joint Committee on Community Infrastructure Levy are much sought after, Human Rights, and the Joint Committee on House of not least in relation to the impact of EU state aid law. Lords Reform. Since returning to the Bar in May 2005, More generally, he has advised on a broad range of tax Paul rapidly re-built his practice and was elevated to issues including the taxation of non-resident developers Queen’s Counsel within 6 years. Paul’s cases include and Stamp Duty Land Tax. His EU law interests resisting major infrastructure proposals, promoting encompass public procurement law, particularly its large-scale development, leading planning, local application in the context of property development and government and human rights cases, and multi-million the impact of EU trade agreements on business activity. pound compensation claims, most recently including successfully representing Asda against a bid by a rival supermarket to block a new out-of-town superstore in R (Tesco Stores Limited) v (1) Forest of Dean District Council (2) Asda Stores Limited and Others [2014] EWHC STEPHEN TROMANS qc 3348 (Admin). Paul is recommended in Chambers UK for Planning Law where he is described as a “rising star.” (Call 1999, Silk 2009)

Stephen is recognised as a leading practitioner in environmental, energy and planning law. He has been JAMES STRACHAN qc involved in some of the (Call 1996, Silk 2013) leading cases in matters such as environmental impact James has an extremely busy assessment, habitats, nuisance, and waste, and in practice in the field of planning, key projects such as proposals for new nuclear power environment and compulsory stations, ports and transport infrastructure. Landmark purchase appearing regularly at cases in which he has been counsel include OSS v public inquiries and the courts Environment Agency (on the definition of waste), Barr in most aspects of planning v Biffa and Network Rail v Williams (on the law of and environmental control, with nuisance), National Grid Gas v Environment Agency and particular recent experience in areas of housing, retail, Price v Powys Council (on contaminated land). He has an highways, compulsory purchase and urban design. extremely wide ranging practice, acting for companies, He acts for major developers (including major house government agencies, local authorities, and NGOs. His builders Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon and Miller Homes), work spans all aspects of environmental law and its local and central government alike. He has been interface with energy, planning and commercial law. appointed by the Government with Justine Thornton He is a trained arbitrator and mediator and has acted QC to promote HS2. He has recently appeared at as an expert witness on UK law in proceedings in other major inquiries for Taylor Wimpey for a major scheme jurisdictions. He has a particular expertise in nuclear law. in Reading and the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon As well as being involved in some of the leading cases Thames for a floating homes proposal on the Thames. and projects in that field, he is a Board Member of INLA He promoted the Junction 19 improvements of the UK and a member of the government’s Committee on M1/M6 and M14 for the Highways Agency. He is Radioactive Waste Management. consistently identified as one of the leading barristers in Planning magazine and the legal directories. James was awarded Environmental & Planning Silk of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards in 2016. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 4

ANDREW TABACHNIK qc JOHN PUGH-SMITH (Call 1991, Silk 2017) (Call 1977)

Andrew has a versatile and wide- John is a recognised specialist ranging practice, specialising in the field of planning law with in cases of complexity, related environmental, local and spanning planning and government, parliamentary compensation work. His practice and property work for both sees him also instructed on the private and public sectors. commercial, employment and He is also an experienced regulatory matters. He regularly appears at public mediator and arbitrator and is on the panel of the RICS inquiries and in High Court challenges. In the last 18 President’s appointments. He is a committee member months, he has led the developer team in cases which of the Bar Council’s Alternative Dispute Resolution have resulted in the grant of consent for over 1,000 new Panel, an advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group homes. In addition, he is currently instructed in what is on ADR, one of the Design Council’s Built Environment believed to be the largest compensation claim presently Experts and a member of its Highways England Design before the Lands Chamber. He is recommended for Review Panel. He has been and remains extensively Planning Law in Chambers UK. involved in various initiatives to use ADR on to resolve a range of public sector issues.

RICHARD WALD qc (Call 1997, Silk 2020) SIMON EDWARDS (Call 1978) Richard specialises in planning, environmental, Simon’s property work ranges energy and associated areas from contentious 1954 of administrative law. He Act matters, through the is instructed on Johnston interpretation of clauses in & Ors v TAG Farnborough leases, restrictive covenants, Airport, one of the largest rights of way and general Part 1 compensation claims considered by the Upper property dispute resolution. Tribunal (Lands Chamber) in recent years. He is acting Most recently, he has successfully argued at first for Natural Resources Wales in a public inquiry into a instance and in the Court of Appeal for the extension proposed £1bn extension to the M4 motorway south of the right to relief from forfeiture to licences of land. of Newport. He was part of the counsel team which He will be the lead advocate for the respondents when represented HS2 Ltd in the hybrid bill process which the Supreme Court hears the appeal. governed the consenting of Phase 1 of the UK’s most significant infrastructure project since the 1950’s. He was General Editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s Encyclopedia of Environmental Law from 2005-2015. He is an editor of Thomson Reuters Bulletin of Environmental Law, a contributor to Tromans on EIA Law & Practice and Co-author of Butterworth’s Highways Law & Practice. He was appointed to the Attorney General’s B-Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2009 and as an Assistant Commissioner to the Boundary Commission for England in 2016. He is regularly ranked by the main directories in the areas of Environmental, Planning, Energy and Administrative Law. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 5

CELINA COLQUHON CHRISTIAAN ZWART (Call 1990) (Call 1997)

Celina regularly acts for and Christiaan has an extensive advises local authority and practice in planning, private sector clients in all infrastructure, environmental, aspects of planning and CIL, and related VAT law. environmental law. She also He is regularly instructed regularly appears in the High on residential development Court and Court of Appeal in schemes of all scales and respect of statutory challenges and judicial review. locations (including Greenbelt and brownfield). She undertakes both prosecution and defence work in Christiaan has significant and unique expertise in respect of planning and environmental enforcement in infrastructure law (particularly energy and transport) Magistrates’ and Crown courts. She specialises in all having acted on numerous DCOs (including Hinkley aspects of compulsory purchase and compensation, C; South Hook CHP; £1bn Swansea Bay Tidal lagoon; acting for and advising acquiring authorities seeking Mynydd Y Gwynt; £1bn Silvertown Tunnel), and to promote such Order or objectors and affected TWAs (including Camden Town; Hinkley; Manchester landowners. Her career had a significant grounding in Piccadilly), on a wide range of projects for all parties. national infrastructure planning and highways projects He has considerable experience of many regeneration and she has continued that specialism throughout. “She masterplans and CPOs, including the £600m Hallsville has a track record of infrastructure matters” Legal 500 Quarter CPO, Enfield’s £1.5bn Meridian Water, Enderby 2019-20. Wharf, and in Jersey (Waterfront & Esplanade Qtr and planning appeals). Christiaan’s extensive and unique planning/tax expertise is regularly sought on all CIL matters and related VAT. He has served on the Attorney General’s C and B Panels. Regular clients include domestic and multinational developers, DAMIAN FALKOWSKI councils, and Government agencies including HMRC, (Call 1994) Cabinet Office, the EA and NRW, and the Highways Agency. Damian undertakes litigation and advisory work in all aspects of the law of real property. He frequently advises on these issues as they arise in the context of construction and COLIN THOMANN development disputes, planning (Call 1999) law and local authority law. Colin’s public and environmental law practice covers planning inquiries, judicial reviews and regulatory matters. He acted for DEFRA DUNCAN SINCLAIR in a number of cases engaging (Call 1996) the Habitats Directive including the Wightlink litigation R (Akester) v DEFRA [2010] Duncan specialises in EWHC 232 (Admin). He has a particular interests in regulatory, EU/competition legal issues arising from carbon emissions trading (including procurement) and and acted for the interested party in Edwards v The public law (JR) issues. He is an Environment Agency [2008] 1 WLR 1587 (HL). Other Editor and one of the authors reported planning cases include Rafferty & Jones v of the Butterworth’s (loose-leaf) SSCLG [2009] EWCA Civ 809 (whether an unoccupied Competition Law Manual and plot of land could engage the Convention right to a has acted in some of the leading competition law and “home”). He has been recommended as a leading State Aid cases to date (including, in respect of State junior for Environmental Law in The Legal 500 and Aid, the London Underground PPP notification) as well Chambers UK and is a member of the Attorney as environmental issues in the energy sector (including General’s A Panel of Counsel. the major Solar Panels JR last year, and work on issues including CERT, CESP, ECO and infrastructure projects including wind farms and other forms of energy generation). PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 6

JAMES BURTON NED HELME (Call 2001) (Call 2006)

James specialises in Ned has an extensive environmental, planning, environmental, planning and and related areas, including public law practice. He is compulsory purchase and ranked in both planning and claims under Part 1 of the environmental law in The Land Compensation Act 1973. Legal 500 and in planning He acts for both developers and local authorities, as law in Chambers UK, where well as national agencies such as Natural England he is described as “undoubtedly a future star in and the Marine Management Organisation. Recent the planning world”. He is an editor of the Sweet & notable cases/inquiries include Grafton Group UK plc Maxwell Environmental Law Bulletins. He has acted v Secretary of State for Transport [2016] EWCA 561; in cases involving large scale housing, heritage, [2016] CP Rep 37 (the successful quashing of a CPO industrial developments and infrastructure projects. promoted by the Port of London Authority after a five Within environmental law, he has particular expertise week inquiry), Mann & ors v Transport for London [2016] in Environmental Impact Assessment, Strategic UKUT 0126 (LC)R (a successful group action under Environmental Assessment, Sustainability Appraisal, Part 1 of the Land Compensation Act 1973 and the 1-3 Habitats Regulations Assessment, Green Belt issues Corbridge Crescent/1-4). James successfully appeared and nuisance. on behalf of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the two week tall Building Proposal at the Oval inquiry. James has also appeared frequently in Committee (both Commons and Lords) in relation to HS2. James was named Environmental and Planning Junior of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards 2015. JACK ANDERSON (Call 2006)

Jack is instructed by both individuals and local authorities in relation to planning matters DAVID SAWTELL both at Inquiry (including (Call 2005) enforcement appeals) and the High Court. Recent work David specialises in substantial has included advice on the real property, construction and enforceability of s.106 agreements and advice on development disputes, as well the scope of powers under the Buildings Act 1984 in as insolvency, commercial and the context of a listed building in a state of serious company law work related to disrepair. Jack has also acted in the Magistrates court the same. His work frequently including prosecutions in respect of tree preservation has an international edge, orders and fly-tipping and in relation to planning involving cross border and overseas transactions enforcement and has acted on planning appeals to and disputes, and has a growing appellate practice. the Crown Court. He has advised on questions of He appears regularly in the Chancery Division, environmental law including waste and permit trading Upper Tribunal, and the First Tier Tribunal (Property and is a contributor to Westlaw Insight in relation to Chamber) in respect of both residential leases and environmental law. land registration, and has considerable experience of commercial leasehold disputes. He is instructed as leading junior counsel by a core participant in the Grenfell Tower inquiry. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 7

KELLY STRICKLIN- CATHERINE DOBSON COUTINHO (Call 2009) (Call 2006) Catherine has acted in some Kelly has extensive experience of the leading environmental advising and litigating EU law cases in recent years including issues which arise in planning Barr v Biffa Waste Ltd (the and environmental law. She leading Court of Appeal has advised on judicial review decision on the relationship of CIL decisions (in particular between private nuisance how State aid law applies to CIL exemptions), state and statutory pollution control) and Austin v Miller aid and procurement issues arising in the context of Argent (South Wales) Ltd (a landmark case concerning proposed developments, compliance with REACH and the Aarhus Convention’s requirements on the cost advising and litigating in respect of issues to do with of litigation in environmental matters as applied to the electricity network. She also has experience in the private nuisance claims). She is currently instructed environmental taxes, particularly the Aggregates Levy, by the coalition of claimants (the Mayor of London, Landfill Tax, Climate Change Levy and Carbon Price Greenpeace and 5 local authorities) in a challenge Support. to the Government’s decision to support a third runway at Heathrow. She has detailed knowledge of international, European and domestic environmental law and is frequently instructed to advise in cases raising issues under the Aarhus Convention, the SEA Directive, the EIA Directive and the Habitats Directive. PHILIPPA JACKSON She has particular expertise in water resources law, having appeared in two of the most important (Call 2008) cases in this field in the last decade: Canal & Rivers Trust v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ Philippa undertakes a wide 342 and Manchester Ship Canal v United Utilities plc range of planning and [2014] UKSC 40. She acts for a number of major environmental work, including utility companies and recently acted for Southern planning and enforcement Water Services Ltd in a public inquiry concerning the appeals, public examinations interface between environmental legislation and the into development plan water abstraction licensing regime. Catherine is a documents, and challenges in member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Counsel the High Court. She has been listed for the past two and a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. years as one of the top planning juniors under 35 by Planning Magazine. Recent cases include Stratford on Avon District Council v SSCLG & Ors [2013] EWHC 2074 and R (Church Commissioners for England) v Hampshire County Council & Anor [2013] EWHC 1933. Recent inquiries include acting successfully, as sole counsel, for a Local Planning Authority in resisting a proposed supermarket in a conservation area. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 8

ROSE GROGAN DANIEL STEDMAN (Call 2010) JONES (Call 2011) Rose has an extensive practice spanning planning, Daniel specialises in planning environmental and public law. and environmental law. She regularly acts for local According to Chambers and authorities and developers in Partners 2017 Daniel is an public inquiries and high court “outstanding advocate” who litigation. Rose is highly regarded is both “commercially aware” across a number of practice areas: she is ranked in and a “pleasure to work with”. He is the joint editor of Chambers and Partners for environmental law and Planning Law: Practice and Precedents and a member local government law and regularly features in industry of the 39 Essex Chambers Newsletter Editorial Board. lists of top rated junior counsel (’s Stars at Daniel is also a member of the Attorney-General’s C the Bar, Planning Magazine top juniors under 35, The Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. Planner’s women of influence). She is one of the go-to counsel for air quality issues, having acted for the Mayor of London in ClientEarth No2. Rose is fast developing an impressive environmental practice. She has particular expertise in contaminated land (she acted as junior counsel to Stephen Tromans QC in Price and Hardwicke MELISSA SHIPLEY v Powys CC [2017] EWCA Civ 1133). Rose also has (Call 2011) extensive experience of advising on issues arising out of the birds and habitats directives, in particular marine Melissa has a keen interest in habitats and protected species. She has also advised planning law. Whilst on a four- on European Commission infraction proceedings for month secondment to a local breach of the Habitats Directive. Rose appears in the authority, she advised on a wide criminal courts as prosecution and defence counsel in range of planning and public planning enforcement and environmental crime. She is a law matters. At Chambers, her member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Counsel. recent experience includes advising on certificates of lawfulness, developments within COMAH zones and the merits of judicial reviews of various planning decisions. She has acted in a range of enforcement matters, including enforcement inquiries and criminal proceedings, and has recently NIRAJ MOHDA been instructed to represent the local planning (Call 2010) authority in a five-day planning inquiry.

Niraj’s property practice spans landlord and tenant and real property disputes. He has represented clients in multi-track trials on diverse matters involving contested lease renewals under Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, boundaries and easements, actions against trespassers, mortgage disputes, and trusts of land. He is familiar with the practices and procedures in the Chancery Division, the Business and Property List in the County Court at Central London, and the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber). Niraj has recently dealt with a number of applications for interim injunctions and interim possession orders in the context of urgent claims for possession of commercial and residential property. His clients include property developers, investors, local authorities and housing associations, and large estates. Recently Niraj has prepared and delivered talks and seminars on commercial property topics for the Property Litigation Association (PLA), City and regional firms, and UK Finance (formerly the Council of Mortgage Lenders). PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 9

VICTORIA HUTTON ROSIE SCOTT (Call 2011) (Call 2013)

Victoria has extensive Rosie practises in all areas experience in planning, of public, planning and environmental and property environmental law. Led by law. She has consistently Justine Thornton QC, she acted been rated as one of the top for Southern Water at a public planning juniors under 35 by inquiry into its dispute with the Planning Magazine. Victoria EA over abstraction licences acts in a wide range of planning and environmental in March 2018. Recently, Rosie has acted in judicial law matters for developers, local authorities and other review and s.289 TCPA challenges; appeared in an interested parties. She is also a qualified mediator and 8-day enforcement inquiry relating to land in an AONB; is able to mediate between parties on any planning/ acted for the order-making authority at a number of environmental dispute. Her work in 2016/17 includes: rights of way inquiries under WCA 1981; and appeared representing a major housing developer in objecting to in both the Magistrates and the Crown Court in relation the Silvertown Tunnel DCO (junior to James Strachan to environmental offences and proceedings under QC), representing Natural Resources Wales at a POCA 2002. 20 week inquiry into the diversion of the M4 (with Richard Wald), acting for the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in a number of statutory challenges and representing a developer in relation to multiple retail schemes across the country including those at appeal. Victoria was appointed to ADAM BOUKRAA the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel in 2016. (Call 2013)

Adam has a broad public law practice and a particular interest in environmental work. He acted for Southern Water in JONATHAN DARBY a dispute with the Environment (Call 2012) Agency on changes to water abstraction licences, Jon is ranked by Chambers & culminating in an inquiry in March 2018 (led by Partners as a leading junior Justine Thornton QC). More recently, he has advised for planning law (Band 5) another water company on the preparation of its water and is listed as one of the resources management plan (with Stephen Tromans top planning juniors in the QC). Adam writes regularly on environmental issues: Planning Magazine’s annual he is a contributor to the Journal of Environmental survey. Frequently instructed Law and assisted with updating the leading text on as both sole and junior counsel, Jon advises contaminated land. He also has experience of planning developers, consultants, local authorities, objectors, matters, including successfully representing the third party interest groups and private clients on all appellant in a challenge to an enforcement notice. aspects of the planning process, including planning enforcement (both inquiries and criminal proceedings), planning appeals (inquiries, hearings and written representations), development plan examinations, injunctions, and criminal prosecutions under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Jon is currently KATHERINE BARNES instructed by the Department for Transport as part of (Call 2014) the legal team advising on a wide variety of aspects of the HS2 project and has previously undertaken Katherine practises in all areas secondments to local authorities, where he advised of planning and environmental on a range of planning and environmental matters law, including the specialist including highways, compulsory purchase and rights areas of town and village of way. Jon also provides advice and representation greens, assets of community in nuisance claims (public and private), boundary value and highways. Her clients disputes and Land Registration Tribunal matters. include developers, local authorities, NGOs, community groups and individuals. She is listed as one of the ‘Highest Rated Planning Juniors Under 35’ by Planning Magazine. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 10

RACHEL SULLIVAN RUTH KEATING (Call 2015) (Call 2017)

Rachel joined Chambers Ruth is developing a broad in 2017 after successful environmental, public and completion of her . planning law practice. She She is developing a broad has gained experience, during public, planning and pupillage and thereafter, environmental law practice. on a variety of planning She has advised on judicial and environmental matters review matters and has also advised developers on including a judicial review challenge to the third matters relating to development, including advice runway at Heathrow, protected species, development on land use classes (with Andrew Tabachnik QC) and land use classes, enforcement notices and and on carbon neutral homes policy and variation of environmental offences. Last year Ruth was a Judicial conditions. She has also been instructed to attend Assistant at the Supreme Court and worked on planning inquiries as junior counsel with leading several environmental, planning and property cases silk. During pupillage Rachel gained experience on including R (on the application of Lancashire County a variety of planning and environmental matters Council); R (on the application of NHS Property including: assisting with a case concerning Hazardous Services Ltd) (UKSC 2018/0094/UKSC 2018/0109), Substance Consents; assisting with an appeal the Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd (UKSC against emission trading scheme allocations; drafting 2018/0116) and London Borough of Lambeth [2019] submissions for expert determination on the correct UKSC 33. She is an editor of the Sweet & Maxwell interpretation of a Project Agreement and assisted Environmental Law Bulletins. with advice about prospects of obtaining satisfactory grant of permission, status of draft allocations, neighbourhood plans, and five year housing land supply. GETHIN THOMAS (Call 2017)

Gethin is developing a broad STEPHANIE DAVID planning and environmental law (Call 2016) practice. His recent instructions include acting as junior counsel Stephanie accepts instructions to Richard Wald, on behalf of across all areas of Chambers’ Natural Resources Wales, in work, with a particular interest a successful 4 week inquiry in planning matters (including concerning proposed byelaws to protect salmon and environmental offences). sea trout stocks in Wales. He was also instructed Stephanie makes regular court by the Government Legal Department in the judicial appearances, undertakes review challenge to the Heathrow third runway. He pleading and advisory work and has a broad regularly advises on a diverse range of planning and experience of drafting pleadings, witness statements environmental issues. For example, he has advised in and other core documents. She has been instructed to relation to the Environmental Information Regulations, advise on a range of matters, including enforcement on the prospects of appealing a refusal of planning notices, environmental offences (such as fly-tipping), permission to develop a site within the Green Belt, and applications for planning statutory review. She has and in relation to issues arising from the removal of also appeared before the Magistrates Court to obtain permitted development rights by planning conditions. entry warrants on behalf of Environmental Health Gethin has been instructed in relation to judicial review Officers. claims as sole and junior counsel. Gethin also has experience of enforcement matters. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 11

TOM VAN DER KLUGHT MATTHEW HORTON qc (Call 2019) (Call 1969, Silk 1989)

Tom accepts instructions Matthew is one of the most across all of chambers’ practice experienced silks at the Planning, areas. Before transferring Environmental and Property Bar. to the Bar, Tom trained as He acts for developers, planning a commercial at authorities and other parties Freshfields, qualifying into in planning and environmental the firm’s litigation practice matters; claimants and acquiring with a specialism in environmental, product liability authorities in compulsory purchase matters; ratepayers and regulatory disputes. He worked on a number of and rating authorities in rating matters; and litigants major corporate investigations and class actions, as in property matters such as easements, rights of way, well as general commercial litigation and advisory ransom, overage and contractual disputes. He has wide pieces. During pupillage Tom assisted on a number experience of judicial review challenges in the courts. He is of environmental law matters and, including advice in recognised as an excellent advocate, cross-examiner and relation to the CITES regime. lawyer in public inquiry, Lands Chamber, High Court and Appellate Court work. He is accustomed to working with experts in other disciplines. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 12

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