As we finalise the programme for our Annual Seminar, we are delighted to announce two guest speakers: Joanna Averley, the Government’s Chief Planner and Head…
Planning Inspector Diane Cragg has allowed an appeal for a steel storage, processing and distribution facility in West Suffolk countryside, overturning the council’s refusal. The…
We are delighted to welcome 6 new pupils to Chambers, commencing their pupillage today. Nicole Hausdorff joins the Business and Property group and will be…
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…
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…
No5 is delighted to announce it has been shortlisted for six awards at The Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024 which is due to take place…
This International Women’s Day, we’re proud to share that Thea Osmund-Smith has been named in The Planner’s Women of Influence list 2024. “Over the past…
Judgment was handed down today in R (Bramley Solar Farm Residents Group) v Secretary of State LUHC [2023] EWHC 2842. Local residents challenged an Inspector’s…
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…
Following an appeal made by JBM Solar Projects 6 Limited (APP/B3030/W/21/3279533), Inspector Baird has granted permission for a 49.9 MW solar farm on a site…
In this practical take on motorway service areas and Green Belt very special circumstances, Christian Hawley and Thea Osmund-Smith join Richard Kimblin QC in identifying…
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;…
Westminster City Council v SSHCLG [2010] EWHC 1472 (Admin) Thinking of discontinuing, or settling a claim? This 21-page Judgment (admonishment) provides some important guidance on…