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Planning Appeals

"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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For more information:


Planning Appeals 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

Jessica Allen

Call 2019

Sioned Davies

Call 2019

Anna Stein

Call 2023

Paul Cairnes KC

Call 1980 | Silk 2016

Planning Appeals Clerks

Marc Forrest-Thomas

Practice Director, Planning & Environment

Craig Wain

Consultant

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Planning Appeals Podcasts

Featured podcast

Planning Podcast – Planning Appeals – Part 1, with Bridget Rosewell OBE

Click here to pre-order your copy of Planning Appeals: Practice and Materials (Kimblin QC) Bloomsbury Professional Publishing. Watch episode 2 here. From one of the…

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Featured podcast

Planning Podcast – Planning Appeals – Part 2, with James Corbet Burcher

James Corbet Burcher joins Richard Kimblin QC for the second Planning Podcast dedicated to Richard’s upcoming book release “Planning appeals: Practice and materials” where they…

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Featured podcast

Planning Podcast – Episode 10 – Planning Appeals & Mixing Modes

The Business and Planning Act 2020: how amendment to the Town and Country Planning 1990 Act, may change the mix of appeal procedures; what might…

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Clerk Team

Marc Forrest-Thomas

Practice Director, Planning & Environment

marct@no5.com

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