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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 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. In the last 18 instance and in the Court of Appeal for the extension months, he has led the developer team in cases which of the right to relief from forfeiture to licences of land. have resulted in the grant of consent for over 1,000 new He will be the lead advocate for the respondents when homes. In addition, he is currently instructed in what is the Supreme Court hears the appeal. believed to be the largest compensation claim presently before the Lands Chamber. He is recommended for Planning Law in Chambers UK.

DAMIAN FALKOWSKI (Call 1994)

JOHN PUGH-SMITH Damian undertakes litigation (Call 1977) and advisory work in all aspects of the law of real property. He John is a recognised specialist frequently advises on these in the field of planning law with issues as they arise in the related environmental, local context of construction and government, parliamentary development disputes, planning and property work for both law and local authority law. the private and public sectors. He is also an experienced mediator and arbitrator and is on the panel of the RICS President’s appointments. He is a committee member of the Bar Council’s Alternative Dispute Resolution DUNCAN SINCLAIR Panel, an advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group on ADR, one of the Design Council’s Built Environment (Call 1996) Experts and a member of its Highways England Design Review Panel. He has been and remains extensively Duncan specialises in involved in various initiatives to use ADR on to resolve regulatory, EU/competition a range of public sector issues. (including procurement) and public law (JR) issues. He is an Editor and one of the authors of the Butterworth’s (loose-leaf) Competition Law Manual and has acted in some of the leading competition law and State Aid cases to date (including, in respect of State Aid, the London Underground PPP notification) as well as environmental issues in the energy sector (including 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 5

CHRISTIAAN ZWART RICHARD WALD (Call 1997) (Call 1997)

Christiaan has an extensive Richard specialises in practice in planning, planning, environmental, infrastructure, environmental, energy and associated areas CIL, and related VAT law. of administrative law. He He is regularly instructed is instructed on Johnston on residential development & Ors v TAG Farnborough schemes of all scales and Airport, one of the largest locations (including Greenbelt and brownfield). Part 1 compensation claims considered by the Upper Christiaan has significant and unique expertise in Tribunal (Lands Chamber) in recent years. He is acting infrastructure law (particularly energy and transport) for Natural Resources Wales in a public inquiry into a having acted on numerous DCOs (including Hinkley proposed £1bn extension to the M4 motorway south C; South Hook CHP; £1bn Swansea Bay Tidal lagoon; of Newport. He was part of the counsel team which Mynydd Y Gwynt; £1bn Silvertown Tunnel), and represented HS2 Ltd in the hybrid bill process which TWAs (including Camden Town; Hinkley; Manchester governed the consenting of Phase 1 of the UK’s most Piccadilly), on a wide range of projects for all parties. significant infrastructure project since the 1950’s. He He has considerable experience of many regeneration was General Editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s Encyclopedia masterplans and CPOs, including the £600m Hallsville of Environmental Law from 2005-2015. He is an editor Quarter CPO, Enfield’s £1.5bn Meridian Water, Enderby of Thomson Reuters Bulletin of Environmental Law, Wharf, and in Jersey (Waterfront & Esplanade Qtr a contributor to Tromans on EIA Law & Practice and and planning appeals). Christiaan’s extensive and Co-author of Butterworth’s Highways Law & Practice. unique planning/tax expertise is regularly sought on He was appointed to the Attorney General’s B-Panel all CIL matters and related VAT. He has served on the of Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2009 and as an Attorney General’s C and B Panels. Regular clients Assistant Commissioner to the Boundary Commission include domestic and multinational developers, for England in 2016. He is regularly ranked by the main councils, and Government agencies including HMRC, directories in the areas of Environmental, Planning, Cabinet Office, the EA and NRW, and the Highways Energy and Administrative Law. Agency.

COLIN THOMANN (Call 1999)

Colin’s public and environmental law practice covers planning inquiries, judicial reviews and regulatory matters. He acted for DEFRA in a number of cases engaging the Habitats Directive including the Wightlink litigation R (Akester) v DEFRA [2010] EWHC 232 (Admin). He has a particular interests in legal issues arising from carbon emissions trading and acted for the interested party in Edwards v The Environment Agency [2008] 1 WLR 1587 (HL). Other reported planning cases include Rafferty & Jones v SSCLG [2009] EWCA Civ 809 (whether an unoccupied plot of land could engage the Convention right to a “home”). He has been recommended as a leading junior for Environmental Law in The Legal 500 and Chambers UK and is a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 6

JAMES BURTON JACK ANDERSON (Call 2001) (Call 2006)

James specialises in Jack is instructed by both environmental, planning, individuals and local authorities and related areas, including in relation to planning matters compulsory purchase and both at Inquiry (including claims under Part 1 of the enforcement appeals) and Land Compensation Act 1973. the High Court. Recent work He acts for both developers and local authorities, as has included advice on the well as national agencies such as Natural England enforceability of s.106 agreements and advice on and the Marine Management Organisation. Recent the scope of powers under the Buildings Act 1984 in notable cases/inquiries include Grafton Group UK plc the context of a listed building in a state of serious v Secretary of State for Transport [2016] EWCA 561; disrepair. Jack has also acted in the Magistrates court [2016] CP Rep 37 (the successful quashing of a CPO including prosecutions in respect of tree preservation promoted by the Port of London Authority after a five orders and fly-tipping and in relation to planning week inquiry), Mann & ors v Transport for London [2016] enforcement and has acted on planning appeals to UKUT 0126 (LC)R (a successful group action under the Crown Court. He has advised on questions of Part 1 of the Land Compensation Act 1973 and the 1-3 environmental law including waste and permit trading Corbridge Crescent/1-4). James successfully appeared and is a contributor to Westlaw Insight in relation to on behalf of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in environmental law. 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. KELLY STRICKLIN- COUTINHO (Call 2006)

Kelly has extensive experience NED HELME advising and litigating EU law (Call 2006) issues which arise in planning and environmental law. She Ned has an extensive has advised on judicial review environmental, planning and of CIL decisions (in particular public law practice. He is how State aid law applies to CIL exemptions), state ranked in both planning and aid and procurement issues arising in the context of environmental law in The proposed developments, compliance with REACH and Legal 500 and in planning advising and litigating in respect of issues to do with law in Chambers UK, where the electricity network. She also has experience in the he is described as “undoubtedly a future star in environmental taxes, particularly the Aggregates Levy, the planning world”. He is an editor of the Sweet & Landfill Tax, Climate Change Levy and Carbon Price Maxwell Environmental Law Bulletins. He has acted Support. in cases involving large scale housing, heritage, industrial developments and infrastructure projects. Within environmental law, he has particular expertise in Environmental Impact Assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment, Sustainability Appraisal, Habitats Regulations Assessment, Green Belt issues and nuisance. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 7

PHILIPPA JACKSON ROSE GROGAN (Call 2008) (Call 2010)

Philippa undertakes a wide Rose has an extensive range of planning and practice spanning planning, environmental work, including environmental and public law. planning and enforcement She regularly acts for local appeals, public examinations authorities and developers into development plan in public inquiries and high documents, and challenges in court litigation. Rose is highly the High Court. She has been listed for the past two regarded across a number of practice areas: she is years as one of the top planning juniors under 35 by ranked in Chambers and Partners for environmental Planning Magazine. Recent cases include Stratford law and local government law and regularly features in on Avon District Council v SSCLG & Ors [2013] EWHC industry lists of top rated junior counsel (Legal Week’s 2074 and R (Church Commissioners for England) v Stars at the Bar, Planning Magazine top juniors under Hampshire County Council & Anor [2013] EWHC 1933. 35, The Planner’s women of influence). She is one of Recent inquiries include acting successfully, as sole the go-to counsel for air quality issues, having acted counsel, for a Local Planning Authority in resisting a for the Mayor of London in ClientEarth No2. Rose is proposed supermarket in a conservation area. 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 v Powys CC [2017] EWCA Civ 1133). Rose also has extensive experience of advising on issues arising out of the birds and CATHERINE DOBSON habitats directives, in particular marine habitats and (Call 2009) protected species. She has also advised on European Commission infraction proceedings for breach of Catherine has acted in some the Habitats Directive. Rose appears in the criminal of the leading environmental courts as prosecution and defence counsel in planning cases in recent years including enforcement and environmental crime. She is a Barr v Biffa Waste Ltd (the member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Counsel. leading Court of Appeal decision on the relationship between private nuisance and statutory pollution control) and Austin v Miller Argent (South Wales) Ltd (a landmark case concerning the Aarhus Convention’s requirements on the cost DANIEL STEDMAN of litigation in environmental matters as applied to JONES private nuisance claims). She is currently instructed (Call 2011) by the coalition of claimants (the Mayor of London, Greenpeace and 5 local authorities) in a challenge Daniel specialises in planning to the Government’s decision to support a third and environmental law. runway at Heathrow. She has detailed knowledge of According to Chambers and international, European and domestic environmental Partners 2017 Daniel is an law and is frequently instructed to advise in cases “outstanding advocate” who raising issues under the Aarhus Convention, the SEA is both “commercially aware” Directive, the EIA Directive and the Habitats Directive. and a “pleasure to work with”. He is the joint editor of She has particular expertise in water resources Planning Law: Practice and Precedents and a member law, having appeared in two of the most important of the 39 Essex Chambers Newsletter Editorial Board. cases in this field in the last decade: Canal & Rivers Daniel is also a member of the Attorney-General’s C Trust v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. 342 and Manchester Ship Canal v United Utilities plc [2014] UKSC 40. She acts for a number of major utility companies and recently acted for Southern Water Services Ltd in a public inquiry concerning the interface between environmental legislation and the water abstraction licensing regime. Catherine is a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Counsel and a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 8

MELISSA SHIPLEY JONATHAN DARBY (Call 2011) (Call 2012)

Melissa has a keen interest in Jon is ranked by Chambers & planning law. Whilst on a four- Partners as a leading junior month secondment to a local for planning law (Band 5) authority, she advised on a wide and is listed as one of the range of planning and public top planning juniors in the law matters. At Chambers, her Planning Magazine’s annual recent experience includes survey. Frequently instructed advising on certificates of lawfulness, developments as both sole and junior counsel, Jon advises within COMAH zones and the merits of judicial reviews developers, consultants, local authorities, objectors, of various planning decisions. She has acted in a third party interest groups and private clients on all range of enforcement matters, including enforcement aspects of the planning process, including planning inquiries and criminal proceedings, and has recently enforcement (both inquiries and criminal proceedings), been instructed to represent the local planning planning appeals (inquiries, hearings and written authority in a five-day planning inquiry. representations), development plan examinations, injunctions, and criminal prosecutions under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Jon is currently instructed by the Department for Transport as part of the legal team advising on a wide variety of aspects of the HS2 project and has previously undertaken VICTORIA HUTTON secondments to local authorities, where he advised (Call 2011) on a range of planning and environmental matters including highways, compulsory purchase and rights Victoria has extensive of way. Jon also provides advice and representation experience in planning, in nuisance claims (public and private), boundary environmental and property disputes and Land Registration Tribunal matters. law. She has consistently been rated as one of the top planning juniors under 35 by Planning Magazine. Victoria acts in a wide range of planning and environmental ROSIE SCOTT law matters for developers, local authorities and other (Call 2013) interested parties. She is also a qualified mediator and is able to mediate between parties on any planning/ Rosie practises in all areas environmental dispute. Her work in 2016/17 includes: of public, planning and representing a major housing developer in objecting to environmental law. Led by the Silvertown Tunnel DCO (junior to James Strachan Justine Thornton QC, she acted QC), representing Natural Resources Wales at a for Southern Water at a public 20 week inquiry into the diversion of the M4 (with inquiry into its dispute with the Richard Wald), acting for the Secretary of State for EA over abstraction licences Communities and Local Government in a number of in March 2018. Recently, Rosie has acted in judicial statutory challenges and representing a developer in review and s.289 TCPA challenges; appeared in an relation to multiple retail schemes across the country 8-day enforcement inquiry relating to land in an AONB; including those at appeal. Victoria was appointed to acted for the order-making authority at a number of the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel in 2016. rights of way inquiries under WCA 1981; and appeared in both the Magistrates and the Crown Court in relation to environmental offences and proceedings under POCA 2002. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 9

ADAM BOUKRAA RACHEL SULLIVAN (Call 2013) (Call 2015)

Adam has a broad public Rachel joined Chambers law practice and a particular in 2017 after successful interest in environmental work. completion of her pupillage. He acted for Southern Water in She is developing a broad a dispute with the Environment public, planning and Agency on changes to environmental law practice. She water abstraction licences, has advised on judicial review culminating in an inquiry in March 2018 (led by matters and has also advised developers on matters Justine Thornton QC). More recently, he has advised relating to development, including advice on land use another water company on the preparation of its water classes (with Andrew Tabachnik QC) and on carbon resources management plan (with Stephen Tromans neutral homes policy and variation of conditions. She QC). Adam writes regularly on environmental issues: has also been instructed to attend planning inquiries he is a contributor to the Journal of Environmental as junior counsel with leading silk. During pupillage Law and assisted with updating the leading text on Rachel gained experience on a variety of planning contaminated land. He also has experience of planning and environmental matters including: assisting with matters, including successfully representing the a case concerning Hazardous Substance Consents; appellant in a challenge to an enforcement notice. assisting with an appeal against emission trading scheme allocations; drafting submissions for expert determination on the correct interpretation of a Project Agreement and assisted with advice about prospects of obtaining satisfactory grant of permission, status of draft allocations, neighbourhood plans, and five year KATHERINE BARNES housing land supply. (Call 2014)

Katherine practises in all areas of planning and environmental law, including the specialist areas of town and village STEPHANIE DAVID greens, assets of community (Call 2016) value and highways. Her clients include developers, local Stephanie accepts instructions authorities, NGOs, community groups and individuals. across all areas of Chambers’ She is listed as one of the ‘Highest Rated Planning work, with a particular interest Juniors Under 35’ by Planning Magazine. in planning matters (including environmental offences). Stephanie makes regular court appearances, undertakes pleading and advisory work and has a broad experience of drafting pleadings, witness statements and other core documents. She has been instructed to advise on a range of matters, including enforcement notices, environmental offences (such as fly-tipping), and applications for planning statutory review. She has also appeared before the Magistrates Court to obtain entry warrants on behalf of Environmental Health Officers. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 10

RUTH KEATING MATTHEW HORTON qc (Call 2017) (Call 1969, Silk 1989)

Ruth is developing a broad Matthew is one of the most environmental, public and experienced silks at the Planning, planning law practice. She Environmental and Property Bar. has gained experience, during He acts for developers, planning pupillage and thereafter, authorities and other parties on a variety of planning in planning and environmental and environmental matters matters; claimants and acquiring including a judicial review challenge to the third authorities in compulsory purchase matters; ratepayers runway at Heathrow, protected species, development and rating authorities in rating matters; and litigants and land use classes, enforcement notices and in property matters such as easements, rights of way, environmental offences. Last year Ruth was a Judicial ransom, overage and contractual disputes. He has wide Assistant at the Supreme Court and worked on experience of judicial review challenges in the courts. He is several environmental, planning and property cases recognised as an excellent advocate, cross-examiner and including R (on the application of Lancashire County lawyer in public inquiry, Lands Chamber, High Court and Council); R (on the application of NHS Property Appellate Court work. He is accustomed to working with Services Ltd) (UKSC 2018/0094/UKSC 2018/0109), experts in other disciplines. the Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd (UKSC 2018/0116) and London Borough of Lambeth [2019] UKSC 33. She is an editor of the Sweet & Maxwell Environmental Law Bulletins.

GETHIN THOMAS (Call 2017)

Gethin is developing a broad planning and environmental law practice. His recent instructions include acting as junior counsel to Richard Wald, on behalf of Natural Resources Wales, in a successful 4 week inquiry concerning proposed byelaws to protect salmon and sea trout stocks in Wales. He was also instructed by the Government Legal Department in the judicial review challenge to the Heathrow third runway. He regularly advises on a diverse range of planning and environmental issues. For example, he has advised in relation to the Environmental Information Regulations, on the prospects of appealing a refusal of planning permission to develop a site within the Green Belt, and in relation to issues arising from the removal of permitted development rights by planning conditions. Gethin has been instructed in relation to judicial review claims as sole and junior counsel. Gethin also has experience of enforcement matters. PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & PROPERTY GROUP Page 11

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