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FRANCIS TAYLOR BUILDING, INNER TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 7BY
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Andrew Tait KC
Work Department
- Planning
- Environment
- Compulsory Purchase and Land Valuation
- Administrative and Public
Position
Andrew Tait KC’s areas of work are in planning, environmental, administrative and land compensation. He has wide experience across the planning field. He has extensive experience of Development Consent Orders (including the East Anglia One North, East Anglia Two and Sizewell C DCOs in 2021) Transport and Works Act Orders, Compulsory Purchase Orders and parliamentary bills. Schemes he has promoted include the Victoria Station Upgrade, the Northern Line Extension, Barking Riverside Extension, Bank Station Capacity Upgrade, the Poole Twin Sails Bridge, the DLR (2012 Games Preparation) Order, the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon scheme, the Weymouth Relief Road, the South Devon Link Road and the East Leeds Orbital Extension. He acted for BAA on Crossrail, for BAA and BMW on HS2 and for ABP on the M4 Newport scheme. He has successfully resisted many judicial reviews, such as BBOWT v Secretary of State for Transport (2019) and in Client Earth v Secretary of State for Business (2021).
Career
- MA (Oxon) (Open Exhibitioner)
- QC 2003
Memberships
Planning and Environment Bar Association (Chairman 2016-2019)
Administrative Law Bar Association
Parliamentary Bar
Compulsory Purchase Association
National Infrastructure Planning Association
Association for Real Property and Infrastructure
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Planning
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Andrew Tait KC –Francis Taylor Building ‘Andrew is forensic and good on his feet. He is very bright and sees the target clearly. He is prominent in his field of planning and parliamentary law.’
As ‘one of the leading barristers sets for planning‘, Francis Taylor Building provides a full spectrum planning practice. The chambers has an established and ‘deserved strong reputation‘ as an infrastructure set but has also seen a recent increase in residential schemes, from planning appeal inquiries to strategic advice to developers. A number of members have been instructed on the Sizewell C nuclear power station; Hereward Phillpot KC led for NNB Generation Company (SZC) Limited, a subsidiary of EDF; Andrew Tait KC is acting for the local planning authority, East Suffolk Council, in the ongoing hearings; and Hugh Flanagan is acting for EDF Energy on its application for development consent and appeared in the High Court. Members of chambers are involved in the litigation concerning the proposal to build a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre over part of Victoria Tower Gardens; Meyric Lewis KC represented opponents London Gardens Trust and Save Victoria Tower Gardens, and Kate Olley acted for the Secretary of State and the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation. Richard Honey KC led the team of counsel on Friends of the Earth & South Lakeland Action on Climate Change v SSLUHC, defending two judicial reviews of the government’s approval of the Whitehaven coal mine. Simon Bird KC led Flanagan in Aquind Ltd v SSBEIS, appearing for the claimant after the Secretary of State refused a DCO for the proposed 2GW Aquind electricity interconnector between Le Havre and Portsmouth.