FTB is a barristers’ chambers with a leading reputation for planning, environment, licensing, public, compulsory purchase and land valuation, major infrastructure projects, local government, rating, ecclesiastical and religious liberty, highways, commons and open spaces and ADR.
We are consistently recognised as a leading set by the market and directories because of the quality and number of leading practitioners we can provide, our major projects and our client base.
Co-op Live Manchester is the £365m entertainment venue that plans to make Manchester the musical capital of Europe.
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The case concerns two related applications for the construction and operation of large offshore windfarms in the North Sea.
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In 2016 the Government announced proposals for a Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens immediately to the south of the Houses of Parliament.
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Walleys Quarry is a waste landfill site locate in Newcastle Under Lyme and which opened in February 2007.
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The Sizewell C new nuclear power station at Sizewell in East Suffolk is one of the single most important energy infrastructure projects in the UK for a generation.
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The O2 Academy Brixton is an internationally renowned concert venue, with audiences travelling from all over the world to attend live music events and comedy shows. The iconic stage design is based on Venice’s Rialto bridge and frames Europe’s largest fixed stage. The capacity of the venue is in the region of 5,000 persons.
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This afternoon seminar will provide an opportunity to be informed about and discuss the latest developments in infrastructure planning with some of the leading barristers in the field. It will focus on key practical issues, providing a convenient way for busy solicitors, consultants and local authority officers to keep up to date and to manage the implications of recent changes. It will be followed by a drinks reception.
This webinar will provide an update on costs in judicial review and practice and procedure points for those involved in public law litigation.
This afternoon case law update will be given by Andrew Fraser-Urquhart KC and Kate Olley.
Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against Jay J’s judgment refusing to quash a planning permission for an agricultural barn and covered handling yard near the River Wye SAC.
In a decision dated 12th May 2025 the Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Local Government, on behalf of the Secretary of State, has granted planning permission for a hyperscale data centre on a site at Abbots Langley, in the Hertfordshire Green Belt, together with a country park on land adjacent to the development site. The appeal followed a decision by the local planning authority, Three Rivers District Council, to refuse permission for the scheme.
