Andrew Tait KC’s areas of work are in planning, environmental, administrative and land compensation. He has wide experience across the planning field. He has extensive experience of Development Consent Orders (including the East Anglia One North, East Anglia Two and Sizewell C DCOs in 2021) Transport and Works Act Orders, Compulsory Purchase Orders and parliamentary bills. Schemes he has promoted include the Victoria Station Upgrade, the Northern Line Extension, Barking Riverside Extension, Bank Station Capacity Upgrade, the Poole Twin Sails Bridge, the DLR (2012 Games Preparation) Order, the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon scheme, the Weymouth Relief Road, the South Devon Link Road and the East Leeds Orbital Extension. He acted for BAA on Crossrail, for BAA and BMW on HS2 and for ABP on the M4 Newport scheme. He has successfully resisted many judicial reviews, such as BBOWT v Secretary of State for Transport (2019) and in Client Earth v Secretary of State for Business (2021).
Planning and Environment Bar Association (Chairman 2016-2019)
Administrative Law Bar Association
Parliamentary Bar
Compulsory Purchase Association
National Infrastructure Planning Association
Association for Real Property and Infrastructure