A legal team from No5 Chambers (Peter Goatley QC and Christian Hawley) and DLA Piper UK LLP (Andrew Batterton and Claire Stoneman) have just completed…
This case, although legally technical in nature, provides an interesting illustration of the way that the courts grapple with interpreting statutory powers in real-world situations….
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…
Two barristers from No5 Barristers’ Chambers, the UK’s largest set of chambers, are to be appointed to Her Majesty’s Queen’s Counsel by the Lord Chancellor…
This week sees the second of the Party conferences. In the media, other events and issues have been ahead of homes and planning, but this…
Today (14 June 2019), Mr Justice Dove has handed down judgment in one of the first statutory review challenges to consider the Revised National Planning…
A planning expert will give advice on how to prepare for planning inquiries at No5 Barristers’ Chambers’ leading seminar. Inspector Phillip Ware, who joined The…
Over 100 local authority planning delegates have benefited from the expertise of top barristers following a series of advisory seminars. No5 Barristers’ Chambers Planning Group has…
Peter Goatley, Planning and Environment Group Introduction “Valued landscapes” have become a frequent and significant feature in planning decision making since the advent of the…
In R (o.a.o Peter Buckley (on behalf of Foxhill Residents’ Association)) v Bath and North East Somerset Council and Curo Places Ltd [2018] EWHC 1551…
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…
Peter Goatley has successfully obtained planning permission on behalf of Gladman Developments for 150 new homes at Leonard Stanley in Stroud District. The site is…
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…
The Planning Inspectorate have upheld Persimmon’s appeal against Stratford District Council’s decision to refuse permission for 81 dwellings in Bishops Itchington. The Council conceded that it did…
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…