No5 Barristers' Chambers

Has acted for a wide range of clients including local authorities, house builders, construction companies, retailers, health authorities and trusts; his practice background lies in the following areas: planning appeals and development plan inquiries (major unitary development plan and local plan inquiries, waste disposal appeal inquiries, major retail proposals, housing, industrial developments, business parks, aviation inquiries, leisure developments); planning enforcement (enforcement notice appeals, breach of planning control criminal proceedings, High Court and County Court planning injunctions); minerals (mineral inquiries including major opencast coal and aggregate sites); environmental matters (waste disposal proposals, waste local plans); highways (major highway line order and compulsory purchase inquiries, highway and pedestrian inquiries); judicial review and statutory challenges (High Court challenges and appeals related to planning permissions, local plans and appeals); compulsory purchase and compensation; Lands Tribunal proceedings; other local government and public law matters; Boundary Commission inquiries.

Called to the Bar 1976.

BA (Hons).