Hugh Richards practice includes planning, environment and rights of way matters at inquiry and in the courts for developers, landowners, local authorities and government agencies.
He has particular experience and expertise in housing, development plan making, energy, waste, sports stadia, gypsy and traveller issues and planning enforcement. He talks regularly at seminars on a variety of topics including ‘legal updates’, localism, energy and housing planning policy, development plan making, giving evidence at planning inquiries, planning committee training and gypsy and traveller issues.
He is a multi-academy trust director, charity trustee, military museum trustee, churchwarden and a keen amateur actor and singer. He obtained planning permission to build his own house in the Green Belt.
Hugh was called to the Bar in 1992, having spent 12 years in the Army and read International Politics at the Universities of Wales (Aberystwyth) and California (Santa Barbara).
Hugh practices the following areas:
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Other:
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R(Smar Holdings Limited) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2024] EWHC 2034 (Admin) Key take-aways: It is lawful to impose a…
After months of anticipation, the new NPPF is finally here, heralding what the Deputy Prime Minister has called a “landmark overhaul” to “shake-up a broken…
R(Smar Holdings Limited) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2024] EWHC 2034 (Admin) Key take-aways: It is lawful to impose a…
