Cornerstone Barristers

Planning, compulsory purchase, local government, town and village greens, judicial review and environment.

Richard appeared in recent large Planning Inquiries including.

• Cribbs Causeway major called in inquiry into very substantial retail expansion. Four QCs appeared at Inquiry.
• South Oxfordshire housing inquiry which involved a detailed housing land supply argument where Richard’s clients were successful.
• Bramshill Mansion and Registered Park inquiry. This was substantial inquiry over 5 weeks involving 3 QCs into highly significant and complicated applications for very sensitive Grade I heritage assets where Richard appeared for Historic England.
• Chiswick Curve. This was recovered jurisdiction inquiry into the tallest proposed building in West London at 32 storeys. This was a 4-week inquiry with very significant effects on large parts of West London.
• R (oao Cotham school) v Bristol City Council [2018] EWHC 1022 (Admin) Richard’s clients successfully challenged decision to register village green.

Called 1994, Inner Temple.

Planning and Environment Bar Association (PEBA); Compulsory Purchase Association (CPA); National Infrastructure Planning Association (NIPA)

St Paul’s School; St John’s College, Cambridge (1992 MA Cantab).

Tennis, family.