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 Barristers’ Chambers are proud to have again made a strong showing in Planning Resource’s Annual Planning Law Survey published on 27 June 2025, with…
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…
An appeal has been allowed by Inspector Thomas Hatfield for 330 new homes, land for a primary school and earth raising on a greenfield site…
No5 Barristers’ Chambers has again made a strong showing in Planning Resource’s Annual Planning Law Survey published on 16 June 2023. A total of 10…
No5 Barristers’ Chambers has again made a strong showing in Planning Resource’s Annual Planning Law Survey published on 16 June 2023. A total of 10…
Appeal for 233 houses allowed with a full award of costs for BDW. The appeal concerned a Reserved Matters application for housing on the edge…
The new London Plan was finally adopted in March this year. The previous London Plan was produced for Mayor Boris. It stacked housing in the…
There have been a number of successful appeals on Green Belt sites in the past 2 years. The key to these successful cases starts with;…
What is the success rate for planning appeals for new housing refused by a local planning authority? 27% – for all appeals determined under the…
In this year’s awards which will be taking place virtually on Thursday 25 March, No5 has been shortlisted in the category of Best Chambers for…
The site of the former Hazeldens Nursery on the London Road in Albourne is set to become home to a Retirement Villages Extra Care development…
Having had to postpone its Annual Planning Seminar until October due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the No5 Planning Team has taken to the airwaves…
Chris Young QC and Howard Leithead have successfully resisted a challenge to a decision to grant planning permission by Brighton & Hove City Council. The…
Robert Jenrick, the new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government will today complete his first week in office. His initial pronouncements about…