Landscape and Countryside
- Landscape and Countryside
- Access to Environmental Information
- Air Quality
- Climate Change and Emissions Trading
- Contaminated Land
- Energy
- Environmental Appeals and Inquiries
- Environmental Enforcement Action
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Environmental Permitting
- EU Environmental Law and Regulation
- Flooding and Drainage
- Fracking
- International Environmental Work
- Judicial Review
- Landscape and Countryside
- Marine Planning and Harbour Orders
- Pollution and Regulatory Issues
- Strategic Environmental Assessment
- Village Greens, Commons and Manorial Rights
- Waste
- Water Law
- Wildlife and Habitats
- Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel
- Welsh Government's Panel of Counsel
Landmark barristers have appeared in most of the significant cases in recent years which have addressed the impacts of development on the countryside and protected landscapes.
Our barristers deal regularly with nationally significant infrastructure projects in the countryside (including a number of road schemes, airports and rail projects including HS2), major housing developments (including numerous strategic urban extensions and new settlements) in protected landscapes including Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Green Belt, and a range of substantial energy, waste and minerals schemes in the countryside.
Recent court highlights include:
- Dover DC v Campaign to Protect Rural England (Kent) [2018] 1 W.L.R. 108, in which the Supreme Court considered a major housing development in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty;
- R (Oakley) v South Cambridgeshire CC [2017] EWCA Civ 71, where the Court of Appeal dealt with a proposed football stadium in the Green Belt outside Cambridge.