Practice Profile

Richard Phillips QC has wide experience in all spheres of planning, particularly in retail, leisure and entertainment, historic buildings, waste, motorway service areas and major housing projects.  He regularly appears in Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Planning Magazine's Planning Survey as a top silk in the Planning sections. 

"The ‘incisive and razor-sharp' Richard Phillips QC is ‘a pleasure to instruct' due to his ‘charm, thoroughness and track record of success'".
Chambers & Partners 2009

"Richard Phillips QC ...‘exemplary brain and frightening insight.  Ensuring that he is not cross-examining you is one good reason for hiring him"
Planning Magazine, 2005

Experience

PLANNING

• Residential development - Greenfield site on edge of Leckhampton. Instructed by Barton Willmore for David Wilson Homes and others
• Motorway Service area for Swayfields on M42. Instructed by Hammonds
• Residential development in Greenbelt to "enable" redevelopment of secondary school in Billericay. Instructed by PPML
• Major leisure/residential development in Cotswold Water Park. Instructed by Charles Planning
• Showmen's Yard, Lutterworth. Instructed by David Loveday
• Indoor Market, Blackpool. Instructed by Roger Etchells
• He has also advised this year on: landfill, incineration, redevelopment of Newbury racecourse, football stadia, major residential projects, Buncefield Terminal, superstores, redevelopment within Bristol University and major urban regeneration projects.

INQUIRIES, LDF EXAMINATIONS AND ADVISING

Major Housebuilders

Clients including: Persimmon, David Wilson Homes, Bovis, Taylor Wimpey, Bellway, Charles Church, Linden and major Consortia Schemes

Major CPO Inquiry

Croydon Gateway Site

Major Regeneration Scheme

Attwood Green  Inquiry

LICENSING

Richard Phillips QC has undertaken many leisure and entertainment planning and licensing cases, including: casinos - license applications in Central London and provinces; planning inquiry for casino in provinces; numerous amusement centre planning appeals; major hotel and chalet development inquiry in Cotswold Water Park.

In 2008 he has dealt with two s.34 Gaming Act 1968 appeals in the Magistrates Courts regarding Holloway Road, Islington and Green Lanes, Haringey.  Instructed by Shoosmiths.

And he has advised on casinos in Preston, Blackpool, Sunderland, Birmingham, Manchester, Margate and Newcastle, where he dealt with planning and licensing issues.  Instructed by Noble Organisation and Berwin Leighton Paisner.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Waste

Resisting High Court - challenge to Belverdere Incinerator permission.

Appearance at Surrey Waste Plan Examination.

Advising on Incinerators in Cornwall and Peterborough and landfill in East London and Gloucestershire.

Qualifications and Appointments

• MA (Cantab.)
• Assistant Parliamentary Boundary Commissioner for England
• Member of the Planning and Environmental Bar Association