David's advocacy and advisory work on behalf of both the public and the private sectors focussing on planning and related matters.

Planning

David's practice has developed from a specialism in both landlord and tenant and planning.

His planning inquiry work embraces both shorter and longer public inquiries. For the longer inquiries this tends to involve multi-disciplinary teams of consultants ranging from the technical to the creative. His inquiry and advisory work covers a wide range of topics and has embraced a considerable number of mineral proposals (both deep mine and opencast), many road proposals, a number of deep sea ports, several major airport inquiries, and a proposal for a large intermodal freight exchange. David’s inquiry work also features many aspects regularly found in complex Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) cases, such as air quality and emissions/depositions, noise, blasting, ecology and habitats, waste, flooding and water quality.

Qualifications

• Law at Brunel University

• Law at London School of Economics

Scholarships

• Philip Teichman Scholarship by the Inner Temple

Awards

• Poland (Treasurer’s) Prize when called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1980

Memberships

• Administrative Law Bar Association

• Compulsory Purchase Association

• Planning and Environmental Bar Association

• Supplementary Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (Common Law): 1992-1999