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Dr Ashley Bowes
Work Department
Planning; environment; public law
Career
Ashley specialises in all aspects of the development and use of land, including planning, property, licensing and local government law. He is a member of the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, in which capacity he represents the UK Government in his areas of specialism.
He appears regularly for developers, local authorities, landowners and residents’ groups from the planning application stage, through public inquiries and on to litigation in the courts. He has experience acting for all sides in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
Ashley is also the General Editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s Journal of Planning & Environment Law and the author of Oxford University Press’s textbook, ‘A Practical Approach to Planning Law’, as well as being a co-opted member of the Planning & Environment Bar Association Committee.
Called in 2013 by Gray’s Inn as a Prince of Wales scholar.
Recent work
Highlights include:
- R(GOESA Ltd) v Eastleigh Borough Council – a judicial review to a decision by Eastleigh Borough Council to approve a runway extension at Southampton Airport in the leading case on the cumulative emissions in EIA assessments.
- R(University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust) v Harborough District Council – Ashley appeared for the NHS Trust challenging a 2,000 unit housing and mixed-use urban extension.
- R(Together Against Sizewell C Ltd) v Secretary of State – appeared for claimants seeking to quash the decision to grant development consent for a new nuclear power station at Sizewell.
- Land at Jolly Boatman, East Molesey, Surrey – representing the Council at a two-week planning inquiry, regarding a proposal to erect 97 homes and an 84-bed hotel opposite Hampton Court Palace.
Memberships
- UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)
- Planning and Environment Bar Association (PEBA)
- Property Bar Association (PBA)