Graeme is a specialist in planning, environmental, compulsory purchase and public law. He has extensive experience as an advocate at Public Inquiries, Hearings and Examinations.

Graeme's clients include developers, landowners, local planning authorities and he is instructed by solicitors and planning consultants. His practice covers advocacy and advisory work and he frequently appears at Public Inquiries, Hearings and Examinations.

Graeme is currently instructed on a range of matters including: the promotion at appeal of several housing developments in England, including in the Green Belt and National Landscapes (AoNB), the promotion of a c.1,300 home development on MoD land in Kent, several logistics and industrial developments and two Local Plan Examinations.

Graeme is listed in Planning Magazine’s Top Rated Planning Silks 2023, Chambers and Partners and Legal 500.

Graeme is a graduate of King’s College London where he read Law. After graduation he attended the Inns of Court School of Law, Bar Vocational Course, and worked as a part-time lecturer in Constitutional Law at King’s College London.

Graeme regularly gives papers at Landmark seminars and has conducted seminars on Planning Law at University College London, on the M.Phil. Town and Country Planning Course, lectured for the Local Government Group, Central Law Training, the RTPI, PINS training week and various other organisations. He also provides training for council members and officers.

Memberships 

• Administrative Law Bar Association

• Planning and Environmental Bar Association