Top rated silk members listed are:

• Douglas Edwards KC
• Michael Humphries KC
• Hereward Phillpot KC
• Morag Ellis KC
• Saira Kabir Sheikh KC
• Alexander Booth KC
• Mark Westmoreland Smith KC
• Simon Bird KC
• Suzanne Ornsby KC
• James Pereira KC
• Gregory Jones KC
• Richard Honey KC
• Andrew Tait KC
• Craig Howell Williams KC
• Richard Glover KC
• Meyric Lewis KC

Top rated Junior members listed are:

• Rebecca Clutten
• Isabella Tafur
• Charles Streeten
• Caroline Daly
• Daisy Noble
• Hugh Flanagan
• Mark O'Brien O'Reilly
• Annabel Graham Paul
• Alexander Greaves
• George Mackenzie
• Ned Westaway
• Esther Drabkin-Reiter
• Alex Williams
• Jonathan Welch

The top rated juniors in the under 35 category are:

• Daisy Noble
• Mark O'Brien O'Reilly
• Stephanie Bruce-Smith
• Michael Rhimes
• Armin Solimani

Highest-rated barristers for residential:

• Alexander Booth KC
• Morag Ellis KC
• Mark Westmoreland Smith KC

Highest-rated barristers for commercial and retail:

• Simon Bird KC
• Morag Ellis KC

Highest-rated barristers for infrastructure:

• Michael Humphries KC
• Hereward Phillpot KC
• Rebecca Clutten
• Alexander Booth KC
• Isabella Tafur
• Mark Westmoreland Smith KC
• Morag Ellis KC

The annual Planning Law Survey provides a detailed picture of the most highly rated planning barristers, solicitors, law firms and legal departments working in England today. The survey, which was first published in 1998, invites solicitors, consultants, developers and local authorities to nominate barristers who, in their view, exemplify best practice. Solicitors and law firms are voted for by consultants, developers and local authorities. A total of 217 respondents gave their nominations this year. Only those working in roles that could involve them in commissioning or instructing a barrister or solicitor, and who received an invitation from Planning, were eligible to vote. The invitation list was compiled to ensure rankings were not skewed by disproportionately high levels of responses from single organisations, and the results weighted to ensure that neither public nor private sector voters were disproportionately represented.

Morag Ellis KC takes a joint 16th place as this year’s highest-ranking female planning silks. The third highest placed female KC, at 19th, is Saira Kabir Sheikh KC. Suzanne Ornsby KC, in equal 26th place, is the fifth highest placed female KC.

Top Five Juniors ranking

Rebecca Clutten is ranked as one of the top billing in the junior barristers this year, while Isabella Tafur climbs from fifth equal to third.

Top ten junior barristers

 Charles Streeten takes a joint eighth position.

The top under-35s

Daisy Noble and Mark O'Brien O'Reilly share third place, with Mark being in the fastest-rising under-35 barristers, climbing from joint tenth last year.