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Planning, Environment & Property Group PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP 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 London, 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 and environmental directories as an “exceptional law and he is cited as a advocate…he possesses recommended leader in these fantastic people skills and fields by the current editions attracts instructions as a of Chambers UK and The consequence of his bright and Legal 500. He is an expert in environmental, licensing, inspector-friendly disposition”. local government and related cases. His planning and He practises in the field of planning, compulsory environmental law practice has encompassed the full purchase, local government and highway law together range of developments, including major infrastructure, with a broad range of environmental, public law housing, retail, business, leisure, minerals and waste. and judicial review cases, appearing in the Lands 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 WILLIAM NORRIS qc has also appeared at several of the major highways inquiries including M25, M20, M3 and M40 MSAs and (Call 1974, Silk 1997) many major retail inquiries. 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 SIMON EDWARDS (Call 1991, Silk 2017) (Call 1978) Andrew has a versatile and wide- Simon’s property work ranges ranging practice, specialising from contentious 1954 in cases of complexity, Act matters, through the and spanning planning and interpretation of clauses in compensation work. His practice leases, restrictive covenants, sees him also instructed on rights of way and general commercial, employment and property dispute resolution. regulatory matters. He regularly appears at public Most recently, he has successfully argued at first inquiries and in High Court challenges.
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