Planning Appeals: Practice and Materials

Richard Kimblin KC is a barrister at No 5 Chambers, who has been engaged with this area of work throughout his career. His inquiry experience extends from early cases on inquiry fairness to the longest running inquiry since Heathrow T5, namely the mid-Wales windfarm inquiry which sat from time to time over a year. He has long experience of enforcement inquiries, Transport and Works Act inquiries for schemes including motorways, canals and railways – most recently at the East-West Rail inquiry. He has been instructed by the Government as a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel. In consequence he has appeared in the Planning Court and the Court of Appeal in many of the recent cases which address planning inquiries and hearings.

Chapter 1 The scope of appeals
Chapter 2 Commencement
Chapter 3 Written evidence and representations
Chapter 4 Managing appeals and Rosewell
Chapter 5 Inquiries
Chapter 6 Hearings
Chapter 7 Remote events and electronic documents
Chapter 8 Costs
Chapter 9 Applications and appeals against Secretary of State decisions
Chapter 10 Where next?
APPENDICES
1 Town and Country Planning Act 1990, ss 70, 77 and 78 (as amended)
2 Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (SI 2015/595)
3 Town and Country Planning Appeals (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000 (SI 2000/1625) (as amended)
4 Town and Country Planning (Hearings Procedure) (England) Rules 2000 (SI 2000/1626) (as amended)
5 Town and Country Planning (Enforcement) (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2002 (SI 2002/2685) (as amended)
6 Town and Country Planning (Referred Applications and Appeals Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/544)
7 Timescales – Rosewell
8 Plan of an inquiry room
9 Bar Council Code of Conduct – extracts
10 RTPI Code of Professional Conduct
11 RICS Rules of Conduct for Members