From No5 Barristers’ Chambers, in the Planning Podcast, Richard Kimblin QC is joined by Jack Smyth and Hashi Mohamed, planning and environmental barristers at No5. They consider Covid consequences: timescales…
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…
R v Bloor (Roderick), 2020 WL 01290364 (2020) It is notoriously difficult to predict the level of fines in planning cases. Not least because the…
No5 Barristers’ Chambers Planning Group is hosting its flagship conference on Monday, March 30, at The ICC in Birmingham. The event, which is expected to…
Planning and Environment expert Jack Smyth of No5 Barristers’ Chambers has been appointed as a Drainage Member of the Agricultural Land Tribunal of Wales. The…
We are delighted to announce that Jack Smyth has been crowned as the Legal 500 UK Junior of the Year in the Regional/Scottish category. The…
The case concerns an area of land in the village of Kirtling, near Newmarket. The owner, Linda Tate (also known as Linda Watson), was unsuccessful…
BRIAR CLOSE NURSERY, LONDON ROAD, MORETON IN MARSH This was a hard-fought inquiry involving two local planning authorities given that the single pitch gypsy site…
No5 Chambers’ Planning Group was described by a leading independent directory as home to ‘a number of noted and rising stars in the field’, and…
Treading Wind Farm, Lincolnshire This was a recovered decision by the Secretary of State following a lengthy and hard-fought inquiry. Two local planning authorities resisted…
Martin Kingston QC has once again topped Planning Magazine’s annual poll of the most respected barristers in the planning and environmental field of work. The survey receives…
By Jack Smyth Government policy, over succeeding years, has been moving in a more permissive direction. The present extant national policy is found in PPS…
The battle over an unauthorised gypsy camp on greenbelt land near Birmingham continued yesterday as a highways inspector said the development would not clog up…