Planning & Environmental Law

The Planning and Environmental Law team at Garden Court Chambers draws on the wide breadth of experience and expertise of a number of practitioners in order to provide clients with a highly professional and dedicated service.

Planning Law

Members of the team undertake planning and enforcement notice appeals and those relating to compulsory purchase order and are experienced in dealing with cases concerned with nature conservation, habitats, low impact development, sustainability and climate change, waste, historic landscapes and listed buildings. In addition members have considerable experience in defending enforcement proceedings in both criminal and civil courts and for challenging planning and enforcement decisions in the Administrative Court.

In recent years members have represented developers seeking permission for housing, marinas, waste management sites, garden centres and mobile homes parks, as well community and interest groups concerned with the preservation of the environment and they have been involved in a number of high profile cases, including the challenge to the compulsory purchase order made in respect of the Olympics site.

In addition a number of our team have a particular expertise in representing Gypsies and Travellers seeking planning permission for caravan sites and defending planning enforcement action taken against them.

Environmental Law

Members of the team also provide expert environmental litigation advice and representation, covering all aspects of environmental law, and undertake nuisance actions of all types, toxic tort actions, complex multi-party actions, planning inquiries and regulatory challenges.

Members have been involved in much high profile litigation. They have appeared at many important public inquiries, representing environmental pressure groups and aggrieved individuals. For instance, members were involved in the inquiry involving the THORP reprocessing plant inquiry and the NIREX inquiry which concerned the siting of a nuclear waste dump. They have also defended GM crop protesters and climate camp protesters in criminal proceedings.

Civil Clerks

If you would like more information about our Planning & Environmental Law team email the clerks civilclerks@gclaw.co.uk
or call us on 020 7993 7600

The team

Members of the Planning & Environmental Law team are listed below - click on their names to go to their profiles.

Barrister Year of Call Email Address Richard Harvey 1971 Send Email David Watkinson 1972 Send Email Owen Davies QC MA (Cantab) 1973 Send Email Stephen Cottle 1984 Send Email Marc Willers 1987 Send Email Valerie Easty 1990 Send Email Stephen Knafler 1993 Send Email Michael Paget 1995 Send Email Allison Bailey 2001 Send Email Tim Baldwin 2001 Send Email Irena Sabic 2002 Send Email John Beckley 2003 Send Email Tom Wainwright 2003 Send Email Stephen Marsh 2005 Send Email Shiraz Aziz 2006 Send Email Anna Morris 2006 Send Email Alex Grigg 2007 Send Email