Below is a selection of news items, case notes, articles, books and papers authored by members of Chambers.
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Environmental
Below is a selection of news items, case notes, articles, books and papers authored by members of Chambers.
The case concerns two related applications for the construction and operation of large offshore windfarms in the North Sea.
In 2016 the Government announced proposals for a Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens immediately to the south of the Houses of Parliament.
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.
Walleys Quarry is a waste landfill site locate in Newcastle Under Lyme and which opened in February 2007.
Co-op Live Manchester is the £365m entertainment venue that plans to make Manchester the musical capital of Europe.
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.
A planning inquiry into highly controversial proposals for a new tall building in the City of London, which if approved would have been the tallest in the City Cluster.
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.
Following the quashing of the decision of Robert Jenrick MP on the ground of apparent bias in 2020, the redetermination of the Westferry appeal resulted in its dismissal
Borough Yards is a new destination shopping and dining district adjacent to London’s bustling Borough Market in Southwark. The £300m+ regeneration project spanning 116,000 square feet has turned once-forgotten warehouses and railway arches into a cultural, retail, and food and beverage hub.
D.E.L.T.A. Merseyside Ltd and another v Uber Britannia Ltd [2025] UKSC 31
The difference between “black cabs” (or hackney carriages) and private hire vehicles is well known. The relevant regulatory context is, however, far from straightforward with the regulation of black cabs predating not just the smartphone but the car itself (as noted in UTAG v TFL [2022] EWCA Civ 1026, [1] (Where David Matthias KC and Charles Streeten represented the Appellant).
Net Zero Teesside is the United Kingdom's first "full-chain" carbon capture and storage project, and aims to be the world's first gas-fired power station to operate with carbon capture and storage. Granted development consent in February 2024, the project comprises a new gas-fired electricity generating station with post-combustion carbon capture, generating up to the equivalent of the average annual electricity needs of more than a million homes flexible, dispatchable low-carbon power. It also provides a network of pipelines to gather carbon dioxide from a cluster of industries on Teesside and offshore infrastructure to transport the captured carbon to storage beneath the North Sea. The plant is "mid-merit": designed to ramp up and down quickly to meet demand when intermittent renewables fall short, and so to help stabilise the grid as the country moves toward net zero.
When the State takes private land for a major infrastructure project, the law requires the dispossessed owner to be compensated for the value of their loss. Under the principle of equivalence, the former owner is entitled to neither more nor less than their actual loss. What that principle of equivalence means in practice, and how it is measured, was at the centre of a five-day hearing before the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) in March 2026.
The Highsted Park inquiry is an example of the high-profile planning work that FTB Chambers is involved in.
In May 2025, the Supreme Court held that the public’s right of access to the Dartmoor Commons (which is private land) includes the right to camp overnight. At the heart of the matter was a narrow point of statutory construction – namely whether “open-air recreation” in section 10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 included the pitching of tents (see [14] of the judgment).