PRACTICE PROFILE

The principal areas of Timothy Comyn's practice include town and country planning, highways, environmental, local government, transport and works, compulsory purchase and compensation, parliamentary law, and judicial review in these fields. He appears regularly at public inquiries and in the Administrative Division of the High Court  acting for appellants, local authorities and third parties.

RECENT CASES OF NOTE

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Thames Gateway Bridge (Junior counsel for TFL)
• Markham Employment Growth Zone (Junior counsel for Derbyshire CC)
• Howbury Park International Freight Exchange (Counsel for Kent CC)
• Stansted Airport (Advising BAA)
• Bathside Bay TWA (Counsel for Network Rail)

RAILWAYS

• Thameslink 2000 (Junior counsel for Network Rail)
• West Coast Mainline (Junior counsel for Railtrack)

HIGHWAYS

• Lamberhurst By-pass (Counsel for Kent CC)
• Edenbridge By-pass (Counsel for Kent CC)
• A229 Relief Road (Counsel for Kent CC)
• Ramsgate Harbour Relief Road

MINERALS / WASTE

• New Forest National Park (counsel for the Quarry Products Association)
• Javelin Park (counsel for Gloucestershire CC)
• West Sussex Minerals Plan (Counsel for RMC)

HOUSING

• St George's Wharf Vauxhall Tower, (for the Greater London Authority)
• Bankside Tower (Tate Modern) (Counsel for LB Southwark)
• Metro Heights Tower, Elephant and Castle (Counsel for LB Southwark)

OTHER

• Mayor's Transport Strategy (Counsel advising the Mayor /TfL)
• Crystal Palace Park (Counsel for LB Bromley)
• Ashford BC Core Strategy (Counsel for Ashford BC)
• Wembley Park CPO (Junior counsel advising Network Rail)
• Anglia Water Drought Order
• Wembley High Road (Compensation claim for Network Rail)

EXPERIENCE

Since being called to the bar in 1980 Timothy Comyn has  enjoyed a wide experience of public inquiries involving major infrastructure projects including railways and highways,  quarrying and waste developments , housing and retail schemes. In particular, he has been involved in a number of lengthy  inquiries  (9 months +) (Thames Gateway Bridge,  Thameslink 2000, West Coast Mainline, Exeter retail inquiry, A299 Whitstable By-pass,). He has been instructed on a number of housing schemes including  the Vauxhall Tower at St Georges Wharf on behalf of the GLA. . At any one time he is engaged  in appearing at public  inquiries as Counsel representing for both lay clients and public authorities and in a wide variety of advisory work including preparation for and appearances at LPD examinations, Section 78 appeals and Enforcement Notice public inquiries and in the High Court (judicial review) and  the Lands Tribunal,  He also advises  on planning applications, appeals and applications to the High Court, certificates of lawful use, highways and public rights of way, section 106 agreements , land compensation and restrictive covenants.

Qualifications and Appointments

• Academic Qualifications: LLB
• Professional Affiliations: Planning and Environmental Law Bar Association, ALBA, Parliamentary Bar Mess
• Assistant Boundary Commissioner