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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A lunchtime webinar which will be of interest to all solicitors whose work – whether advisory or litigation, public or private sector – involves public law issues and the prospect of judicial review litigation.
An evening seminar on Greenwashing to be given by FTB in conjunction with experts from Mishcon de Reya.
An afternoon update seminar followed by a short drinks reception.
Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
The Court of Appeal (Holgate LJ) has refused an application for permission to appeal by Together Against Sizewell C Ltd. (“TASC”) in its latest judicial review of decision-making on Sizewell C and certified the application as totally without merit (“TWM”). A copy of the Court of Appeal’s order including the reasons can be found here.
In a decision letter dated 10 February 2026 the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero granted a development consent order (DCO) for the Outer Dowsing Offshore Windfarm project, one of the UK’s largest offshore windfarms.
