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…
In this edition, Richard Kimblin QC meets Ian Kemp, a programme officer who is known to many of you, and Thea Osmund-Smith, planning and environmental…
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…