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Hereward Phillpot KC
Work Department
- Planning
- Environment
- Infrastructure
- Administrative & Public
Position
Hereward Phillpot KC took silk in 2015, and has rapidly become recognised as one of the foremost practitioners at the planning and environmental bar. Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 both rank him as one of the highest rated planning silks overall and the Planning Law Survey also ranks him as the second highest rated silk for infrastructure work.
As a junior, the Chambers and Partners guide consistently rated Hereward as a ‘Star Individual’ junior in the field of planning, including him in the Chambers 100 UK Bar List of the top juniors, and naming him ‘Junior Barrister of the Year’ in environment and planning. Before taking silk, Hereward was a member of the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Junior Counsel, having previously served on both the ‘B’ and ‘C’ Panels.
Hereward specialises in planning and environmental law, judicial review and statutory challenge. Regularly appearing in public inquiries, hearings into Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, and the higher Courts, he acts on behalf of developers, the Government, local planning authorities and third parties. He has particular expertise and experience in dealing with Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (including energy generation and transmission, waste water, carbon capture and storage, and transport schemes) and other major strategic developments such as airports, sustainable urban extensions, tall buildings, large housing and employment schemes, and in Administrative Court litigation.
Career
Called 1997, Gray’s Inn (Prince of Wales scholar)
Junior counsel to the Crown (A Panel)
QC 2015.
Memberships
- Planning and Environment Bar Association
- Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association
- National Infrastructure Planning Association
Education
- Queen Elizabeth I Grammar School, Alford
- University of York (BA Hons History 1st, 1995)
- City University (Dip Law, 1996)
- King’s College, London (Dip EC Law, 1998)
Leisure
Cycling, skiing, running, fishing.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Planning
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Hereward Phillpot KC –Francis Taylor Building ‘Harry is a master of his field. In hearings in the Divisional Court and Court of Appeal, against a range of senior and junior opponents, he always stands out from his peers. He takes the right points, presents them with clarity and persuasion, and wins repeatedly.’
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.