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PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT GROUP PUBLIC LA W GROUP
Planning law concerns the use and development of well as the First Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal No5 is one of the few sets to boast genuine specialist is recognised in the leading directories for its work
land. It affects the places we live, work, and play, and (generally in relation to the disclosure of information public law practitioners, whose core work is within this both in London and on Circuit in the Midlands and
the way we travel between them. The way places relating to the environment). area of the law. We are able to provide a supportive the south.
are designed, developed or preserved, impacts on They frequently attend planning inquiries, hearings, pupillage seeking to draw out and hone the very
us every day. Environmental law is closely related We regularly appear in leading public law cases
to planning, and there is a great deal of overlap examinations in public and development consent best skills of our pupils, with regular feedback and in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, and
between the two. Environmental law concerns and order (“DCO”) hearings. Members represent an opportunity to experience the genuine breadth of the High Court. Our counsel are also briefed to
regulates the impact of human activity on the natural developers, land promoters, local authorities and options within chambers for development of a public appear regularly in specialist courts and tribunals,
world and its resources, including the air we breathe, parish councils, as well as action groups who want law practice in the formative years. This area provides such as the Court of Protection, the First-Tier and
and the water we drink. to take part in the planning process. Members of the for a busy mix of paperwork and court hearings. Only Upper Tribunals and Coroner’s courts, as well as
Planning Group have been appointed the Attorney
No5 is noted as being a “heavyweight in planning” General’s Panel of Counsel and so can advise and those with drive and dedicated to making a success in numerous other venues where key public law
and members do some “incredible work in the represent the government in relation to challenges to of their practice need apply, as this is not an area for decisions are taken for example in education matters,
planning sector.” No5 is regarded as the “standout planning appeal decisions and to the adoption of new the faint-hearted. professional discipline, or Parole Board hearings, to
environmental set in the Midlands” - Chambers planning policy, for example No5’s Public Law Group has an established name but a few.
UK. Members are also noted for their wide range expertise across the full breadth of public law
of expertise across construction, planning and Members of the Group have been involved in a We are also a forward-thinking set, which has in place
environmental matters, including in infrastructure number of high-profile cases including: practice. Its members include leading practitioners ground-breaking policies that assist all our members
and development projects.” Nuclear power stations in Somerset and Anglesey in Civil Liberties; Court of Protection; Community (such as maternity and paternity leave provision) and
care, Health and Social Care, including mental with each pupil allocated a mentor amongst the junior
The Planning and Environment group is home to Heathrow runway extensions and Heathrow litigation health; Data and information rights; Education Law;
some of the leading barristers in the field of planning The Shirley litigation concerning air quality impacts ranks, as well as having their allocated supervisor
and environment law. Richard Kimblin QC and Coventry Airport expansion Inquests, Public Inquiries and Coronial Law; Local for pupillage, and regular reviews with the Pupillage
Peter Goatley QC head the group of six silks and Government; Prison and Police Law. The work we Committee to assist during the pupillage. Our clerks
eighteen juniors. The promotion of new garden villages including do of course frequently involves Human Rights law are friendly and efficient, and assist our junior
one in South Bedford for 19,000 new homes
Planning is a branch of public law in which decisions The Thames Tideway Super Sewer and Equality issues. Our members include those members to build practices based on meritocracy
are made by local authorities, the Secretary of State appointed to the preferred counsel panels to the and that frequently enable practice development far
for Housing, Communities and Local Government, the HS2 Equality and Human Rights Commission. Our group faster than at our competitors.
Welsh Ministers, or Inspectors appointed on behalf of The Wright litigation in the Supreme Court
the latter two. Those decisions may then be challenged considering material considerations
by way of judicial or statutory review. Members Members of the group have been involved in some of
regularly appear before all tribunals including the the most important cases relating to the interpretation
specialist Planning Court, the Court of Appeal and the of the National Planning Policy Framework which
Supreme Court.
was first introduced in 2012, including thee Suffolk
Members also appear in the Magistrates’ Courts, Coastal litigation in the Supreme Court on the
the Crown Court (generally in relation to criminal interpretation of the NPPF, which involved four
breaches of heritage and environmental law), as members of the group.