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Nick Grant
Position
Nick is ranked as one of Planning Resource Magazines top planning barristers under 35 and is listed as a rising star for planning in the Legal 500.
Nick specialises in planning and infrastructure, compulsory purchase, and environmental law. He is particularly experienced in residential (particularly older persons accommodation) and large energy infrastructure work.
He has appeared at all levels: in public inquiries, the First-tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court. He has appeared as sole council in each save for the Supreme Court. He also represented the United Kingdom (again both led and unled) before the UN’s Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee.
He is on the Attorney General’s C-panel of counsel, is ranked in Planning Resource Magazine’s top-rated planning juniors and top-rated planning juniors under 35 (top 5), and is ranked as in the Legal500 for as a leading junior in planning and environmental law, and as a “rising star” for local government work.
Prior to starting pupillage, Nick was Judicial Assistant to Lady Justice Arden (now Lady Arden) in the Court of Appeal. Before that, he taught Environmental Law at UCL during his BPTC. While studying for an LLM at Harvard Law School, he was a Senior Editor for the Harvard Business Law Review Online, clerked (equivalent to being a Judicial Assistant) for three judges in the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and represented prisoners before disciplinary tribunals.
He is a contributor to the 4th edition of Friston on Costs and A practical guide to planning law and rights of way in National Parks, the Broads, and AONBS (Law Brief, 2020). He was previously an editor both of Garner’s Environmental Law and the Encyclopaedia of Housing Law and Practice.
Nick is direct access qualified and regularly undertakes pro bono work through Advocate, the Environmental Law Foundation and the KCL Human Rights and Environment Clinic.
Memberships
Appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel (September 2021)
- Administrative Law Bar Association
- Chancery Bar Association
- Compulsory Purchase Association
- National Infrastructure Planning Association
- Planning and Environmental Bar Association
- Procurement Lawyers Association
- Property Bar Association
- United Kingdom Environmental Law Association
Education
Qualifications
- University College London – LLB (First Class)
- Harvard Law School – LLM
- BPP University – BPTC
Publications
- ‘Mandating corporate environmental responsibility through a new directors’ duty’ (2015) Environmental Law Review 17(4), 252-265
- ‘Live/Work units: planning matters in property law” (2022) 26 L&T Rev 5, 192
- Former contributor to Garner’s Environmental Law
- Former Assistant Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Housing Law and Practice
- A practical guide to planning law and rights of way in National Parks, the Broads, and AONBS (Law Brief, 2020)
- Contributor to Friston on Costs (4th Ed, upcoming)
Personal
Awards
- UCL: Richard Fitzgerald Prize for academic, social and communal contribution to UCL Laws
- UCL: International Corporate Rescue Prize for the highest mark in LLB Company Law
- UCL: Highest mark in LLB Environmental Law
- BPP University: Excellence Award
- Inner Temple: Major Scholarship for the BPTC
- Inner Temple: Lawson Moot (Winner)
- Inter-Inns of Court Mooting Competition (Winner)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Environment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Nick Grant – Landmark Chambers ‘Nick provides clear and comprehensive advice.’
London Bar > Planning
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Nick Grant – Landmark Chambers ‘One to watch – very bright and excellent at drafting compelling and persuasive arguments.’
Landmark Chambers is a ‘go to’ set that ‘is unequalled in depth in the planning field’. The chambers has an established reputation in the development sector, while also carrying out significant work in the government and local government space. The set’s ‘enviable choice of counsel, both junior and senior’, appears in significant inquiries, promoting large urban extensions, as well as major mixed-use developments and tall buildings. Heather Sargent acted for Marks and Spencer after its application to demolish and rebuild its flagship store at Marble Arch, Oxford Street was called-in by the Secretary of State; Matthew Fraser represented the main objector, SAVE Britain’s Heritage, during the two-week public appeal. Fraser, led by David Elvin KC acting for Horse Hill Developments, was also one of several members involved in R (Finch) v Surrey County Council, a case concerning the scope of environmental impact assessments of hydrocarbon extraction projects, and its application – Richard Moules KC represented the Secretary of State in the same case Court of Appeal and led Nick Grant in the ongoing appeal in the Supreme Court. Timothy Corner KC led Guy Williams KC in Secretary of State for Transport v Curzon Park Ltd & others, representing the Secretary of State in the Supreme Court in a case concerning if CPO valuations should be increased by nearby planning applications. Tim Mould KC, as was, was appointed as a High Court Judge, effective February 2024.
London Bar > Local government (including rating law)
(Rising stars)Ranked: Tier 1Nick Grant – Landmark Chambers ‘Very strong written and oral advocacy.’