Philip Kolvin QC

Philip's planning work has included the following:

West Berkshire Core Strategy

Acting for Gerald Eve in legal challenge to Core Strategy, involving arguments on Strategic Environmental Assessment and public law principles.

Stop Linton Wind Farm

2010: acting for campaign group to prevent a wind farm in Cambridgeshire country-side. (Click here for news coverage of the decision)

Calderdale, Rossendale and Rochdale Councils

2009: instructed jointly by three councils in a five week, called in, conjoined three-site wind farm and common land deregistration inquiry, involving extensive technical evidence on landscape, transportation, noise, ecology, hydrology and hyrdro-geology.

Rochdale MBC

Instructed in various legal issues relating to Kingsway, a key regeneration site for the north west, comprising £300m+ of inward investment over 200 hectares, including important litigation regarding environmental assessment:

• R v Rochdale MBC ex parte Tew: environmental assessment of outline schemes.
• R v Rochdale MBC ex p. Milne: environmental assessment of outline schemes.
• Legal issues regarding regeneration of Trans-PennineCanal, including successful CPO inquiries and general advice, including highways advice. Appeared in Lomax v SoS and Rochdale MBC: compulsory purchase procedures.

Sheffield City Council

• Unitary Development Plan. Defeated practically all of over 600 objections.
• Defeated appeal by Tesco to build superstore on sports field.
• Various planning and highway JRs, CPOs and general issues.

North Yorkshire County Council

• Acted for Council in House of Lords in R v North Yorkshire County Council ex parte Brown: environmental assessment and old mining permissions.

Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council

• Compulsory Purchase of airspace above Port Authority and Railway land for construction of new road bridge.
• Acting for Council in call-in inquiries regarding major housing sites.

Philip is personally committed to environmental issues and to community participation in the environment.

His work has included:

• Co-author of the Environmental Law volume of Halsburys Laws (Butterworths 2000).
• Author of Saving Open Space (GreenSpace), a community guide to campaigning to preserve green space from development.
• Trustee of Campaign To Protect Rural England(2004-2007).
• Chairman of Civic Trust (2007-2009).

"Philip Kolvin QC specialises in licensing, regulation, planning and local government and is head of the set's licensing team. He is described as an 'astute and pragmatic barrister who works unbelievably hard." Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession, 2011