Environmental Permitting
- 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
Landmark barristers have appeared or advised for operators and/or the Environment Agency in many significant and high-profile cases concerning environmental permitting. Examples include:
- R (Friends of the Earth) v Environment Agency – challenge to permit variation to enable fracking;
- R (Department of Environment Northern Ireland) v Planning Appeals Commission – proper approach to fit and proper person test;
- Inquiry into appeal against the refusal of a permit for incinerator bottom ash processing facility at Avonmouth, with issues concerning appropriate means to deal with odour, dust and noise;
- Advice on permits for on-shore deep mining and waste-related developments (energy-from-waste), and increased charges for permitting.