Our annual Planning Conference offers a full day of in-depth, practical learning on the latest developments in planning law, delivered by leading planning experts. This year’s programme will explore the latest legislative and policy changes and case law developments, with a specific focus on areas of particular relevance to local authority planning lawyers and officers.
Each session will provide attendees with the opportunity to ask questions and share their thoughts and experiences. While the event will be held across one day, all sessions will be recorded and made available to download, allowing participants to engage fully on the day or attend selected sessions and catch up at their convenience.
Further details on the topics covered will be made available in due course over the coming months. The conference offers an ideal opportunity for planning lawyers, officers, and anyone working in a local authority planning team to stay up to date with the most important recent developments in planning law.
Vivienne sits on the Planning and Environment Law Bar Association (PEBA) Committee and is ranked as a leading junior in planning law. She is experienced in high-profile and complex inquiries, judicial reviews and statutory reviews. She acts for claimants, defendants and interested parties. Vivienne’s recent cases include Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority & Open Spaces Society [2023] EWCA Civ 927: recreational rights on Dartmoor (appeal heard by the Supreme Court in October 2024) and R (Waverley BC) v Elstead Parish Council and others [2024] EWHC 833 (Admin): concerning a neighbourhood planning referendum.
Timothy Straker KC – Joint Head of Chambers at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square
Timothy Straker KC has a wide ranging public law practice. He has made many appearances in courts at the highest level in England and Wales and overseas. Timothy has acted in multiple election petitions in England, Wales and Trinidad and Tobago, which operates under a similar regime. He has advised on elections and related matters in multiple jurisdictions including Scotland, Guyana and Asian jurisdictions. He recently led in the Supreme Court when that court (exceptionally) considered the boundary between party and personal expenses. He has appeared in the vast majority of the most important election cases of the last twenty five years, starting with successful appearances for the returning officer in the ‘Literal Democrat’ case, which directly led to the creation of the Electoral Commission. Principally he has acted for returning officers throughout the country and been closely involved in elections since 1995. He has acted for the Greater London Authority and Transport for London ever since those bodies were created. He sits as an election commissioner.
Rachel is a commercial law specialist, with extensive experience acquired within local and central government. She is passionate about both championing the voices of our members and showcasing the breadth of complexity local government law offers through the work of LLG, as reflected by her former role as Chief Projects Assessor for the Diploma in Local Government Law and Practice (2016-19).
Rachel is currently Director of Legal & Governance (Monitoring Officer), London Borough of Newham.
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