Mark Brumwell
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Work Department
Environment.
Position
Partner and head of environment group. Widely recognised as a leading practitioner in environment law and also has wide ranging experience of complementary areas of public law, including town and country planning, compulsory purchase, highways and health and safety. Experience includes contaminated land, water and air pollution, nature conservation, waste management, integrated pollution control, flood defence, water storage and abstraction, emissions trading, environmental taxation and corporate social responsibility. Recent work includes advising on the development of various flood alleviation schemes; on the upgrading of a regional water transfer scheme; on the promotion of a new winter recharge reservoir; on obtaining consents for a waste recycling plant and gravel extraction operation and on proposals for nuclear power stations and wind farms.
Career
Solicitor Simmons & Simmons 1988; solicitor Ashurst Morris Crisp 1989; solicitor SJ Berwin 1996; partner 1998; partner Dundas & Wilson 2004.
Member
Vice-chair, council member and executive committee member United Kingdom Environmental Law Association; Law Society planning panel; legal associate Royal Town Planning Institute; associate Institute of Environmental Sciences; member Compulsory Purchase Association; chair of UK Environmental Law Association.
Education
Merchant Taylors’ School; University of Bristol (1985 LLB Hons); Law Society Finals (1986).
Leisure
Photography, motorsport, mountain walking, golf, badminton.
Practice Areas
Environment; Health and safety; Planning
