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…
Judgment was recently handed down in West Oxfordshire District Council v (1) Secretary of State for Housing Communites and Local Government (2) Rosconn Strategic Land…
The following counsel from No5 Barristers’ Chambers have been appointed to the Attorney General’s civil panel counsel for 2018. London Panels B Panel Counsel C Panel Counsel…
We are delighted to announce that Thea Osmund-Smith has been appointed the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel. The appointment will commence on 1st March….
Thea Osmund-Smith, acted on behalf of the Appellant, David Wilson Homes (Mercia), in promoting a scheme for 68 dwellings in Ellesmere, Shropshire. The appeal was…
Jeremy Cahill QC and Thea Osmund-Smith successful in High Court case concerning the presumption in favour of sustainable development where there is a five year…
Jeremy Cahill QC and Thea Osmund-Smith acted for Barwood Strategic Land and successfully promoted a scheme for up to 900 residential dwellings, a primary school,…
Pertemps Investments Limited v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government The case involved the interpretation and application of Policy P17 “Countryside and Green…
No5 Chambers has entered teams into the Birmingham, London and Leicester Legal walks, which are taking place over the next few months. The walks will…
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…
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…
Ian Dove QC and Thea Osmund-Smith acting on behalf of Lion Court Homes successfully submitted that Coventry City Council failed to discharge it’s duty to co-operate, as required…
Thea Osmund-Smith will present a paper on hot cases in environmental law at the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association’s annual conference on 7/8 July. Richard Kimblin (Vice…