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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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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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Events to keep you connected

29
Nov' 23
Pupillage Open Evening (hybrid)

This Pupillage Open Evening will provide a great opportunity to learn about careers at the planning and environmental Bar and more generally, practice at FTB and the pupillage recruitment process.

01
Dec' 23
Online Lunchtime Briefing – Injunctions & Committals: Case Law Update

Does the court have the power to grant an injunction which binds unidentified people at the time when the order is granted who do not present any risk at the time of the injunction order but may do in the future?  If the Court grants alternative service provisions, does the Claimant have to prove actual knowledge in an application for committal?

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29
Jan' 24
Planning Law Update Seminar for Solicitors, Consultants and Developers in Wales

Confirmed speakers: David Matthias KC Morag Ellis KC, Craig Howell Williams KC, Emyr Jones, Annabel Graham Paul, Charles Merrett, Esther Drabkin-Reiter, Mark O'Brien O'ReillyDr Charles Mynors.

Confirmed topics

  • Ecology and Biodiversity Net Gain 
  • Infrastructure Consenting
  • Nutrient Neutrality
  • Renewable Energy
  • Case Law Update
  • Update from Law Commission
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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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29
Nov' 23
Supreme Court Confirms that “Newcomer” Injunctions are Permissible in Equity

Michael Fry

This morning, 29 November 2023, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Wolverhampton City Council & Ors (Respondents) v London Gypsies and Travellers & Ors (Appellants) [2023] UKSC 47 (which was known as Barking & Dagenham in the High Court and Court of Appeal).

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29
Nov' 23
Western Gas Network Project

Mark Westmoreland Smith

The Secretary of State for Energy Security & Net Zero has confirmed the National Gas Transmission Plc (Western Gas Network Project) Compulsory Purchase Order 2022 (“the Order”), which was made under section 9 of and Schedule 3 to the Gas Act 1986 and the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, following an inquiry held in May 2023.

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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. 

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