Neil Cameron QC

Practice Summary

Neil has extensive experience in planning, compulsory purchase, parliamentary and environmental work.

Major public inquiries include 20 Fenchurch Street (“the Walkie Talkie Building”), the Smithfield General Market redevelopment, the English Partnerships Liverpool Pathfinder CPO, the Blackfriars Beetham Tower, the Wandsworth Ram Brewery towers, and Thameside Terminal.

Recent High Court  and Court of Appeal cases include Pascoe v. Secretary of State (challenge to Pathfinder CPO) and Morge v. Hampshire County Council (consideration of the Habitats and EIA Directives).

Neil also has extensive experience in energy related planning issues advising on;-

• Drax Power on two 290 MW biomass generating stations at Drax and at Immingham.
• W48 on its proposed vegetable oil Weymouth Plant (at the planning application and judicial review stages), and on its Avonmouth Plant.
• Two CCGT (900 MW) generating plants.
• Depleted field gas storage (Scottish Power) and gas cavity salt storage (Eon)
• An application to the IPC for consent for electrical connections to a 900 MW generating station (Intergen).

Neil is recognised in the leading UK legal directories, including Chambers & Partners Directory and the Legal 500.

"As a new silk this year, Neil Cameron QC is set to become an even more prominent figure at Landmark Chambers. 'He's clever, capable and intelligent,' declare commentators, who see him as 'an excellent practitioner who had long deserved to make silk.' Cameron is currently advising on InterGen's Spalding gas-fired power station project." (Chambers & Partners 2010)

"efficient, calm and friendly" and "He has the ability to quickly identify the most important elements of a transaction" (Chambers & Partners 2009)

"flexible and adaptable with clients and solicitors". He is recognised as a leader in the field of planning "a superlative 'hands-on' practitioner". He is noted for his "thoroughness and excellent preparation". (The Legal 500)