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Hereward Phillpot KC KC
Work Department
- Planning
- Environment
- Infrastructure
- Administrative & Public
Position
Hereward Phillpot KC took silk in 2015, and has rapidly become recognised as one of the foremost practitioners at the planning and environmental bar. Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 both rank him as one of the highest rated planning silks overall and the Planning Law Survey also ranks him as the second highest rated silk for infrastructure work.
As a junior, the Chambers and Partners guide consistently rated Hereward as a ‘Star Individual’ junior in the field of planning, including him in the Chambers 100 UK Bar List of the top juniors, and naming him ‘Junior Barrister of the Year’ in environment and planning. Before taking silk, Hereward was a member of the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Junior Counsel, having previously served on both the ‘B’ and ‘C’ Panels.
Hereward specialises in planning and environmental law, judicial review and statutory challenge. Regularly appearing in public inquiries, hearings into Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, and the higher Courts, he acts on behalf of developers, the Government, local planning authorities and third parties. He has particular expertise and experience in dealing with Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (including energy generation and transmission, waste water, carbon capture and storage, and transport schemes) and other major strategic developments such as airports, sustainable urban extensions, tall buildings, large housing and employment schemes, and in Administrative Court litigation.
Career
Called 1997, Gray’s Inn (Prince of Wales scholar)
Junior counsel to the Crown (A Panel)
QC 2015.
Memberships
- Planning and Environment Bar Association
- Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association
- National Infrastructure Planning Association
Education
- Queen Elizabeth I Grammar School, Alford
- University of York (BA Hons History 1st, 1995)
- City University (Dip Law, 1996)
- King’s College, London (Dip EC Law, 1998)
Leisure
Cycling, skiing, running, fishing.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Planning
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Hereward Phillpot KC –Francis Taylor Building ‘Hereward expresses arguments cogently and concisely in court. He is unfailing in his tact, preparedness and persuasiveness both in written submissions and court.’
Described as a ‘chambers of choice’ for planning, Francis Taylor Building prides itself on providing ‘expertise in a myriad of planning matters’. Their team of ‘exceptionally knowledgeable’ silks and juniors providing services that encompass planning applications, development proposals and complex environmental work. Morag Ellis KC led Charles Merrett, in R (BDW Trading and others) v Wrexham Council representing a multitude of clients in a key case considering whether local authorities have a discretion not to adopt a development plan after it is found acceptable at examination. Richard Honey KC has led various counsel from multiple sets in a multitude of cases this year, with a notable highlight being R (Parkes) v Dorset Council, Home Secretary & Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities concerning the geographical extent of Dorset Council’s development control powers in the interface between the land and the sea. Hereward Phillpot KC led Hugh Flanagan in representing East Anglia One North Ltd and East Anglia Two Ltd on in judicial reviews of development consent orders for windfarms off the Suffolk coast.