Direct Access Planning Barrister

If you are searching for a planning barrister or planning law advice, you are most likely facing a difficulty that affects land value, development viability or your home.

Mercantile Barristers provides specialist and targeted planning law advice and representation across the jurisdiction of England and Wales. We act for developers, contractors, landowners, planning consultants, local authorities and  private homeowners in contentious and advisory planning matters.

Our areas of planning law expertise includes:

• Advice on planning permission applications before submission;
• Advising on Planning appeals before the Planning Inspectorate;
• Enforcement notices and stop notices;
• Section 106 planning obligations
• Lawful Development Certificates
• Judicial review of planning decisions

Planning law is primarily governed by the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and the National Planning Policy Framework. Decisions often turn on policy interpretation, material considerations of the specific development and procedural fairness.

Examples of recent challenges we regularly see include:

• A developer who purchased land subject to restrictive conditions that render the scheme commercially unviable
• A homeowner facing enforcement action for a rear extension completed several years ago
• A commercial client whose planning application was refused due to alleged design impact in a conservation area

We are authorised to accept Direct Access instructions. This allows clients to instruct a planning barrister directly without first instructing a solicitor.

If you require specialist planning law advice, please complete the enquiry form and our clerks will respond promptly.