Very commercial, thorough and approachable.”

Legal 500 2022, PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT

Harry acts for private and public sector clients in a broad range of cases in the environment and local government fields. These include landowners, operators, councils and regulators, and he has appeared before a variety of tribunals, including inquiries, hearings, various categories of appeal, and in the civil and criminal courts.

His experience includes statutory nuisance, wind and other renewable energy projects, environmental permitting, riparian duties, water abstraction, water pollution, drainage, waste collection and disposal, town and village greens, highways, footpaths and other rights of way, and various categories of licensing cases.

Harry is the author of a substantial number of articles on planning and environment law, and regularly speaks at seminars and webinars. Recent examples include the following:

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  • Qualifications:

    • Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)
    • Inns of Court School of Law
    • Exeter University

  • Professional memberships:

    • Planning and Environmental Bar Association (PEBA)
    • UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)
    • Civil Mediation Council (CMC)
    • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

  • Harry Spurr is regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and holds a current practising certificate. If you are not satisfied with the service provided, please read here.