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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.

Expertise where it counts

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.

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Co-op Live Manchester

Co-op Live Manchester is the £365m entertainment venue that plans to make Manchester the musical capital of Europe.

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The East Anglia One (North) and East Anglia Two Offshore Windfarms

The case concerns two related applications for the construction and operation of large offshore windfarms in the North Sea.  

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Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre

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

Walleys Quarry is a waste landfill site locate in Newcastle Under Lyme and which opened in February 2007. 

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Sizewell C New Nuclear Power Station

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

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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Events to keep you connected

18
Mar' 26
Public Law Webinar: Section 31(2A) Senior Courts Act: where have we got to?

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.

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25
Mar' 26
The Law of Public Rights of Way, Commons and Town or Village Greens Seminar (Hybrid)

This seminar will address topical issues in the law of public rights of way, common land and town or village greens.

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13
May' 26
Public Law Webinar: Parliamentary Privilege

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.

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Latest from FTB

Environmental Law Blog

Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time. 

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17
Mar' 26
Court of Appeal judgment in R (WildFish) v Buckinghamshire Council [2026] EWCA Civ 283

Charles Streeten, Jonathan Welch, Stephanie Bruce-Smith

On Friday 13th March, The Court of Appeal (Lewison, Lewis, and Dove LJJ) handed down judgment dismissing the appeal against the High Court’s refusal to quash the approval of reserved matters for a 153 dwelling development at Maids Morton in Buckinghamshire.

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Mar' 26
Appeals to the High Court Under s.289 Are Not ‘Second Appeals’ for the Purposes of an Onward Appeal to the Court of Appeal

Ned Westaway, Charles Forrest

The Court of Appeal in Dharmeshkumar v SSHCLG [2026] EWCA Civ 247 (available here) has handed down an important judgment on s.289 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 that will have widespread consequences and which corrects longstanding conventional understanding.

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Environmental Law Blog

Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time. 

Read more