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Planning

"No5 are a go-to chambers for planning matters."

Legal 500 2025

"No5 has matured into a great set with broad and deep expertise. Their training programme is well established and the clerks are good and efficient, unstuffy and very pleasant to deal with."

Legal 500 2025

"The clerks are quick to respond and quick to understand needs."

Chambers UK 2025

"The clerks are excellent. They will always confirm within the hour whether counsel has the availability to take on the advice that you need and give a good estimate of costs."

Chambers UK 2025

"No5 has a wide range of expertise across junior to senior level, making for good availability. No5 offers valuable local authority seminar opportunities at value which brings engagement and understanding."

Legal 500 2025

"No5 Barristers' Chambers is truly a very professional chambers and always provides excellent service."

Legal 500 2023

"No5 Barristers' Chambers is a good set. The KCs and the juniors are very able, and the clerking is exceptional."

Legal 500 2023

"No5 has a wealth of talent and expertise."

Chambers UK 2023

"The clerking is very good and very accessible at all levels. They are always keen to help."

Chambers UK 2018

Chambers has a long-standing reputation for quality advisory and advocacy services in Planning Law, dating back more than half a century.

Our members have been instructed in some of the most important cases (Tesco v Dundee, BDW Trading v Secretary of State, Richborough Estates v Cheshire East BC) and many of the most significant and controversial planning proposals including new town settlements, large scale employment, nuclear power stations, sports stadia, new roads and green energy.

The team ‘has an established reputation for excellence in planning law’ and offers advisory and advocacy services at all levels, from leading KCs to very junior barristers. Our members provide advice from the very conception of a development to its conclusion, whether that be achieving planning consent, at appeal or through to legal challenges in the courts. We assist at every stage in the process, from pre application to planning committee, during an appeal process and through the courts.

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Members act on behalf of developers, land promoters, housebuilders, energy providers, local authorities and private individuals, including local action groups.

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Expertise

Planning Barristers

Peter Goatley KC

Call 1992 | Silk 2020

Richard Humphreys KC

Call 1986 | Silk 2006

Paul Cairnes KC

Call 1980 | Silk 2016

Christopher Young KC

Call 1997 | Silk 2018

Hugh Richards

Call 1992

Rowena Meager

Call 2007

Jack Smyth

Call 2007

Tobin Byers

Call 2017

Jessica Allen

Call 2019

Sioned Davies

Call 2019

Anna Stein

Call 2023

Paul Cairnes KC

Call 1980 | Silk 2016

Planning Clerks

Marc Forrest-Thomas

Chief Commercial Officer

Emily Johnston

Planning & Environment Clerk

Shayna Charles-Rankine

Planning and Business & Property Junior Clerk

Leanne Hillery

Planning & Environment Clerk

Related News, Resources and Events

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Planning Podcasts

Featured podcast

The Planning Podcast Episode 60: NPPF Flashpoint No4

“Vision Led” – what is it and what does it mean?The new “Severe Test” – for traffic impact, Where on earth is Manual for Streets…

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The Planning Podcast Episode 59 – Logistics

Freight and logistics are a huge part of the UK Economy. The new draft NPPF provides for the first time a specific national policy for…

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The Planning Podcast Episode 058 – The NPPF Consultation and Older People’s Housing

The Government has long recognised the “critical” need for more specialist accommodation for elderly people. The UK has a rapidly ageing population; 17% of the…

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Clerk Team

Marc Forrest-Thomas

Chief Commercial Officer

marct@no5.com

Emily Johnston

Planning & Environment Clerk

emilyj@no5.com

Shayna Charles-Rankine

Planning and Business & Property Junior Clerk

shaynacr@no5.com

Leanne Hillery

Planning & Environment Clerk

leanneh@no5.com

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