"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 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 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
Whilst the objective is always to achieve planning permission at a local level, that is not always possible.
Our team has a long-standing reputation for appearing at Planning Appeals, in particular at Public Inquiries, representing appellants, local authorities and interested parties alike. Much of the important work is completed early in the appeal process and it is imperative that all evidence, from statement of case through to proofs of evidence, is prepared thoroughly.
Our members advise from an early stage, ensuring that any application and subsequent is as robustly prepared as possible to give the best possible chance of success at appeal.
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Practice Director, Planning & Environment
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No5’s Planning and Environment group invite you to join them for their Bristol Planning Seminar on Monday 22nd September 2025. The morning will cover essential updates…
No5’s Planning and Environment group is pleased to announce the appointment of Thea Osmund-Smith and Hugh Richards as our new joint Heads of Group, and…
Today (1st August 2025), the High Court has handed down judgment in the case of Quarry Mews Ltd v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and…
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Expertise
Founded over a century ago, No5 now number over 260 barristers, including 41 silks, and provide a national and international service out of No5’s offices in Birmingham, London and Bristol.
People
Founded over a century ago, we now number over 260 barristers, including 41 silks, and provide a national and international service out of No5’s offices in Birmingham, London and Bristol.
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