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 afternoon update seminar followed by a short drinks reception.
A morning planning law update seminar for local authorities and other government in Wales.
Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
The Court of Appeal has refused permission for judicial review of the decision of the Mayor of London not to call in or to direct refusal of planning permission for a major estate regeneration scheme in East London.
Permission was granted on 7 January for the Rhydcar West project, comprising a landmark ski centre, sport and leisure resort in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The grant of planning permission follows the Welsh Government’s confirmation, given in November 2025, that the application would not be called in and the holding direction would be lifted.
