Planning and Environment
Celina Colquhoun specialises in all aspects of Planning, Environmental and Compulsory Purchase Law; Highways, Local Government and Public and Administrative Law as well as Licensing Law. She has extensive experience appearing as an advocate in public inquiries and hearings as well as in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Celina acts for and advises a wide range of public bodies and private parties addressing planning consents, appeals as well as enforcement as well as Community Infrastructure Levy reviews and appeals. She has a depth of experience in handling environmental issues such as air quality; hydrology; ecology; Green Belt; AONB; heritage; and listed buildings and environmental impact assessment generally.
Celina has advised and acted for Government bodies, developers and objectors in a number of major infrastructure projects consented by means of various processes including Town and Country Planning Act 1990; Highways Act 1980; Transport and Works Act 1992 Planning Act 2008 and hybrid bill. Of particular note was her early experience acting for the Highways Agency promoting the Highways Orders in relation to Heathrow Terminal 5 in the late 1990s and her appointment under s.101 of the Planning Act 2008 to provide legal advice and assistance to the Examining Authority appointed to examine the NSIP DCO for the cross- London Thames Tunnel Tideway (or ” Super Sewer”) application in 2013- 2014. She is currently acting for Portsmouth City Council in respect of the DCO application for AQUIND Interconnector Project due to be examined in 2020.
Recent cases and projects of note include Essex County Council v UBB Waste (Essex) Ltd (No. 2) [2020] EWHC 1581 (Technology & Construction Court); UBB v Essex CC [2019] (Admin) )(Planning Court); Watford BC(Gateway, Watford Business Park) CPO 2020; Shirley-v- Canterbury City Council & SSCLG Claim No: CO/3841/2017 (settled March 2020); The County of Herefordshire (South Wye Transport Package– A4194 Southern Link Road) CPO and SRO; Binning Property Corp v SSCLG [2019] EWCA Civ 250 Thorpe-Smith v SSCLG [2017] EWHC 356; R(oaoMaynard) v Chiltern DC & Chalfont St Peter Parish Council [2015] EWHC 3817(Admin)
She is an active member of Women in Planning and the Bar Council. In September 2019 she also addressed the European Circuit of the Bar’s annual conference in Rome on “Issues of judicial protection post-Brexit”; she also edits and contributes LEXIS on Transport & Works Act procedures and Water Industry Act 1991 - sewer and pipe connections
Called 1990, Grays Inn
PEBA; ALBA; CPA; NIPA; UKELA
Parliamentary Bar Mess
BAR COUNCIL – Law Reform Committee and EU Law Committee (Co-Vice Chair)
EUROPEAN CIRCUIT
University of Buckingham (LLB); ICSL (1990 Bar finals)