Christopher Boyle

year of call: 1994

CBoyle@landmarkchambers.co.uk

areas of law

Practice Summary

Christopher Boyle was called to the Bar in 1994. He specialises in Planning, Environmental, Transport and Infrastructure and Compulsory Purchase.

Christopher joined Landmark Chambers in March 2007 from 2-3 Gray's Inn Square. He is Secretary of the Planning and Environment Bar Association and a former committee member of the Compulsory Purchase Association.

He is listed as a leading specialist in planning in Chambers & Partners 2012 and is quoted to "know his stuff backwards".

Areas of practice

Over the past few years Christopher has promoted for national house builders, residential and mixed use sites including major urban extensions as well as energy, waste and mineral schemes, employment, leisure and retail schemes and major transport infrastructure projects. Christopher's notable planning cases include:-

Residential

Recently promoted or currently promoting at S.78 or LDF's Hatchfield Farm, Newmarket 1200 units; Honey Farm, Polegate 500 units; Chilmington Green, Ashford 5750 units; Chichester 1800 units; Milton Keynes 5000 units, Dover 5000 units; Canterbury 2000 units Harlow 1200 units; Littlehampton 1800 units; Cheltenham 5000 units. Stanmore 750 units, Royal Clarence Yard 350 units; Shinfield 2500 units; Haverford West 1000 units. Opposed: Thurrock 550 units; Uckfield 1200 units.

Infrastructure/ Energy

Promoted: EON on a proposed 600,000 tpa Energy from waste plant in Lostock, Cheshire, Mersey Gateway Bridge TWA, New Tyne Tunnel TWA, Oakham Bypass CPO, Gatwick Expressway TWA, Mansfield/Ashfield Regeneration Route CPO; Nottingham Clear Zone and Express Transit; Hungerford Bridge TWA, Central Railway TWA and Hybrid Bill. Opposed: Victoria Underground TWA, CERC Parkandillack Incinerator.

Employment/Retail/Leisure/Town Centre Regeneration

Promoted/ Promoting: 260 ha of employment at Milton Keynes for Berkeley Strategic; Telford Town Centre, retail; Lidl/Crest mixed use in Lewisham and Lambeth, Solihull M42 MSA,  AFC Totton, London City Racecourse.
Opposed: Margate "Dreamland" CPO; The Beach, Carlyon Bay for Cornwall CC; Wolverhampton town centre CPO for Tesco; Leeds town centre CPO for Scarborough Building Society; Sheffield town centre CPO for John Lewis Partnership.

Other

Telecommunications, waste and minerals, environmental designations and control.

QUALIFICATIONS

Christopher read Jurisprudence at Merton College, Oxford. He was joint editor of Butterworths "Local Government Law", 1998-2009, and has been a contributor to the 'Journal of Planning & Environmental Law'.

In 2006 Christopher was elected Secretary of the Planning & Environment Bar Association (PEBA) as well as to the Council of the National Trust. In January 2009 he was appointed to the National Trust Rural Enterprise Panel (formerly the Land Use and Access Panel).

In October 2009 Christopher was appointed a Trustee of HRH The Prince of Wales 'The Prince's Foundation for the Building Community and is a member of HRH's Developers' network.

Christopher also sat on the Capital Investments Board at the University of Cumbria 2007-2010.

In November 2010 Christopher was invitated by the Academy of Urbanism to become an Academician.

In 2012 Christopher was appointed a trustee of the Cumbria Buildings Preservation Trust, and the deputy Commissary General and deputy Vicar General for the Diocese of Canterbury.

CASES

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