No5’s Planning and Environment group invite you to join them for their Bristol Planning Seminar on Monday 22nd September 2025. The morning will cover essential updates…
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…
Project Genesis Ltd v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [2024] EWHC 368 (Admin) Jack represented the SoS throughout the proceedings in…
House v Waverley Borough Council and Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities [2023] EWHC 3011 (Admin) Jack Smyth successfully represented the Secretary…
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…
Planning analysis: In a challenge to the decision of a local planning authority (LPA) to grant planning permission for housing on a longstanding sports field,…
In this episode of the Planning Podcast, Richard Kimblin QC is joined by Will Rundle, Head of Legal at Friends of the Earth, to outline…
Planning: The claimant developer challenged the decision of a local planning authority to accept the recommendations of the Examiner into a draft neighbourhood development plan…
This analysis was first published on Lexis®PSL on 30 April 2021. Planning analysis: The High Court quashed a planning inspector’s decision to allow an enforcement…
This analysis was first published on Lexis®PSL on 31 March 2021. Planning analysis: In considering challenges under sections 288 and 289 of the Town and…
This article was first published by Lexis®PSL on 22/01/2021. Planning analysis: The High Court quashed a decision to grant a planning permission under section 73…
This article was first published by Lexis®PSL on 11/01/2021. Planning analysis: The High Court held that it was not an abuse of process to bring…
This analysis was first published on Lexis®PSL on 26 November 2020 and can be found here (subscription required). Planning analysis: The High Court dismissed a…
R (on the application of Advearse) v Dorset Council [2020] EWHC 807 (Admin) High Court declines to grant relief in a judicial review claim…
No5 Barristers’ Chambers planning specialist Kevin Leigh secured an important victory in the High Court today for a landowner in Flintshire faced with a gypsy and…