Practice Profile

Jeremy is consistently rated by ‘Planning' Magazine survey as one of the top ten planning barristers under the age of 35.

 His practice covers

• planning and environmental law (including consents under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989,compulsory purchase and compensation, transport and works orders, and private bills)
• judicial review and statutory challenge;
• public law and local government law (including non-domestic rating and the council tax, and licensing); and
• commons and village greens.

He has particular expertise in relation to infrastructure, and environmental impact assessment. Currently he is advising on, and promoting at public inquiry, a number of renewable energy projects in England, Wales and Scotland.

Experience

Advising clients on all aspects of planning and environment law, energy (including renewable energy, conventional energy generation, and nuclear), compulsory purchase and compensation, rating and licensing. Clients include: RWE Npower, Thames Water Utilities, Granada Plc, Thales Ltd, Nissan UK, Deloitte LLP, Centro (West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive), as well as many other developers and individuals, and County, Unitary and District Councils. He advises landowner and applicants in relation to commons, village greens and rights of way matters, and sits as an Inspector for commons registration authorities.

Recent cases

include

• R (Lewis) v Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (Supreme Court) UK SC 2009/0167
• Oxfordshire County Council v Oxford City Council and Robinson (House of Lords) [2006] UKHL 25, [2006] 2 AC 674
• R (Friends of Basildon Golf Course) v Basildon Council [2009] EWHC 66 (Admin) (on appeal to the Court of Appeal, concerning ‘screening' under the EIA Regulations)
• R (Thomas Gordon Brown) v Carlisle City Council and Stobart Air [2009] EWHC 2519 (Admin) (on appeal to the Court of Appeal, concerning whether works required under a planning obligation should be regarded as part of a wider ‘project' for EIA purposes)
• Derbyshire Dales District Council v Secretary of State, and West Coast Energy [2009] EWHC 1729 (Admin) (relevance of ‘alternatives' to planning decisions)
• R (Barnes) v Secretary of State (decision-maker's approach to noise assessment of windfarms)
• Deloitte LLP and Thomson Financial v City of London (non-domestic rating; restitution)
• R (Secerno Ltd and others) v Oxford Magistrates Court (non-domestic rating; magistrates' jurisdiction on application for liability order)
• Clocaenog Forest, and Kildrummy, windfarms (RWE Npower)
• Matlock Moor, Cushnie and Carsington Pastures windfarms (West Coast Energy)
• Sillfield and Shebster Windfarm (Whirlwind Renewables)
• Lee Tunnel project (Thames Water)

Qualifications and Appointments

• LLB, LLM (King's College London)
• Contributing editor to Ryde on Rating and the Council Tax
• Occasional lecturer on European Community Law and Environmental Law at King's College London