Timothy Leader - Public & Administrative Law

Tim appears regularly at public inquiries and has handled all kinds of proposals, including those for housing development (with a focus on those raising issues relating to the need for housing and housing land supply), employment, retail, listed building waste and minerals matters.

Other aspects of his practice include:

• Working closely with and advising local authorities on the preparation of local plans and appearing on behalf of local authorities and developers at examinations in public.
• Promoting town centre redevelopment and sustainable urban extensions, including through the making of compulsory purchase orders.
• Gypsy and traveller planning applications, appeals and enforcement, including injunctions (focusing on human rights and discrimination issues and the assessment of need).
• Advising on and appearing at public inquiries into sensitive development affecting Green Belt, SPAs, SACs, listed buildings, registered historic parks and garden, conservation areas and windfarm development.
• Negotiation and re-negotiation of section 106 agreements.
• Planning enforcement: injunctions, stop notices, “direct action” under s.178 of the 1990 Act and enforcement appeals.
• Town and village greens, and commons.
• Compulsory purchase and compensation on behalf of developers, land owners and local authorities.

Tim’s local government practice focuses on:

• Environmental protection (especially EPA 1990)
• Creation of shared services
• Licensing and state aid
• Local authority modernization
• Local government reorganisation
• Local authority contracting and housing
• Procurement
• Vires issues