No5 Barristers' Chambers

Planning; Social Housing;

Leanne is a specialist Housing and Planning Law practitioner. 

In planning law, Leanne regularly advises and represents developers, local planning authorities and Rule 6 parties on a broad range of planning matters representing clients in all stages of the process.  She is an experienced inquiry advocate both in respect of section 78 appeals and planning enforcement matters.  She has a particular interest in judicial and statutory review and her experience dealing with housing injunctive proceedings gives her an advantage when instructed to obtain and enforce injunctions in a planning context.

In her housing practice, she is a busy and experienced junior frequently instructed to act across a spectrum of housing and land law matters, with a particular focus on social housing.  She deals with all manner of security of tenure welcoming interesting and more complex points of law.  Her practice sees her routinely dealing with possession proceedings and related stay applications and appeals, applying her wide experience in Equality Act 2010, Children Act 2004, anti-social behaviour, disrepair, tenancy deposit and technical defences.  Leanne also deals with cases concerning unlawful eviction, harassment, trespass, nuisance, demotion, succession (including only or principal home arguments and concerning minors) and injunctive proceedings including committals.

Leanne has a particular interest in advising and representing clients in homelessness appeals pursuant to Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 and Judicial Review claims.  She most recently acted in Rother D.C. v Freeman-Roach [2018] EWCA Civ 368 concerning vulnerability in light of Hotak and Panayiotou.

RTPI; NAPE; PEBA

LL.B (Hons) - The University of Bristol; BVC - The Bristol Institute of Legal Practice; MSc FPC (Open) - The Open University; Civil and Commercial Mediator – The ADR Group.