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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Are you interested in public and administrative law, environmental law, or the legal process governing what gets built where and how? Then you may be interested in a career at the public and environmental Bar.Are you interested in public and administrative law, environmental law, or the legal process governing what gets built where and how? Then you may be interested in a career at the public and environmental Bar.
Are you interested in public and administrative law, environmental law, or the legal process governing what gets built, where and how? Then you may be interested in a career at the public, planning and environmental Bar.
Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
HH Judge Klein, sitting as a High Court Judge, has dismissed Lanchester Properties Limited’s claim for judicial review of a Forestry Commission (Commission) decision recorded in a letter of 4 March 2025 under the Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999.
Mark O’Brien O’Reilly has acted unled in two recent cases before the High Court concerning permanent injunctions under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to restrain actual and apprehended breaches of planning control: Tandridge District Council v Cash and others [2026] EWHC 1387 (KB) and Hillingdon LBC v Springwell Lane Metal Recycling Ltd [2026] EWHC 1676 (KB). Both Claimants also successfully received cost awards in their favour.
