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David Smith

David Smith

Position

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.

Education

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