Year of Call | 1999 |
Education | BA(Hons) Town & Country Planning - University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
Specialisation | Town & Country Planning, Chancery Law. |
Particular Interests | Town & Country Planning, compulsory purchase and related local government and administrative law. Commons and Village Greens. Chancery including boundaries, easements and restrictive covenants. |
Reported Cases: | Martin v Childs [2002] EWCA Civ 283 (easement). |
Significant Case: | On behalf of a private client, secured planning permission from the Secretary of State for a biomass power station in East Yorkshire. The £30m scheme will employ Danish technology to create 12Mw energy from the burning of straw. This will supply electricity into the national grid to power the equivalent of 20,000 homes. |
Membership: | Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute / Chartered Town Planner, UKELA, Planning and Environmental Bar Association. |