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Ned Westaway | Barrister London | Francis Taylor Building
"He clearly has a passion for the subject, is always in command of his papers and is good on his feet."
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Practice areas: Planning, Environment, Licensing, Major Infrastructure Projects, Local Government, Ecclesiastical Law and Religious Liberty, Rating, Public Law, European Law
Ned is instructed in a wide variety of work, in particular across all areas of planning and environmental law.
He is consistently rated as a leading junior by Chambers and Partners under Planning, Environment and Agricultural & Rural Affairs. Ned is recognised as a leading junior by Planning magazine. Who's Who Legal 2018 lists him as one of the most highly regarded juniors for environment law who is a "powerful advocate" and "a widely recognised rising star".
Ned regularly appears at public inquiries in planning, environmental and highways matters and has experience of advising on and appearing at examination hearings for major infrastructure projects. He has an active High Court practice and is on the Attorney General's B Panel of London counsel. Recent work in the senior courts includes the Supreme Court (Dover DC v CPRE (Kent) [2017] UKSC 79), Court of Appeal (R (Lancashire CC) v SSEFRA [2018] EWCA Civ 721), Divisional Court (Webb v Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset [2017] EWHC 3311 (Admin)) and High Court (R (Usher) v Forest Heath DC [2017] EWHC 2511 (Admin) and Akhtar v SSCLG [2017] EWHC 1840 (Admin)). Ned is a Trustee of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association and is standing counsel for the Campaign for National Parks. He regularly undertakes work pro bono and is accredited to take work on a direct public access basis. Ned is also a trustee of the Organic Research Centre.
Compensation, rating and land valuation
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"A brilliant, very modern barrister." "He's very good technically on planning and environment work."
Chambers and Partners 2018, Planning
"He is enthusiastic, bright and gets to the point." "One of the best juniors in this area. He's always thought of a different angle to an issue that you haven't thought of."
Chambers and Partners 2018, Environment
"His written work in complex cases puts him on a par with many QCs."
Chambers and Partners 2018, Agriculture & Rural Affairs
"He provides competent and clear advice, and is one to watch"
Legal 500 2017, Environment
"He is very bright and very articulate"; "Very responsive, hard-working and bright"; "particularly good on flooding matters"
Chambers and Partners 2017, Environment
"He is extremely thorough and very good at picking out case law. His method of questioning and cross-examining is impressive, he's firm but fair."
Chambers and Partners 2017, Agriculture & Rural Affairs
"Very bright indeed, very articulate and not afraid to go to court with a case that is out of the ordinary - he is very environmentally minded and has a good sense of the principles"; "Very reliable, personable and very good at what he does."
Chambers and Partners 2017, Planning
Ned has considerable expertise and experience in environmental law, including nature conservation, nuisance, water, waste and contaminated land. He has acted for the Environment Agency, the Marine Management Organisation and Natural England and has a thorough understanding of pollution control, marine and habitats law.
Recent work includes advice on hazardous substances consents, the management of blanket bog habitat and on powers and liabilities for flood alleviation projects under the Water Resources Act 1991. Ned was counsel to CPRE in its successful challenge of planning permission granted to major residential development in the Kent Downs AONB about the standard of reasons for EIA development in sensitive areas (R (Campaign to Protect Rural England) v Dover DC [2016] EWCA Civ 936 – upheld in the Supreme Court in December 2017: [2017] UKSC 79).
Ned regularly advises on environmental and habitats assessment. He was junior to Robert McCracken QC in R (Evans) v Basingstoke and Deane BC [2013] EWCA Civ 1635, a case that considered the compatibility of planning enforcement time limits with EIA law. He was instructed by Friends of the Earth in its Supreme Court intervention on the appeal of the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal's decision in Central Craigavon Ltd's Application for Judicial Review [2011] NICA 17. Ned acted for Natural England successfully resisting a challenge to a condition designed to protect EU habitats in R (Feeney) v SST [2013] EWHC 1238 (Admin).
In respect of criminal work, Ned acts both for prosecutors and defendants. He recently acted for a national construction firm avoiding prosecution proceedings for the alleged demolition of buildings within a West London conservation area without consent.
On flooding, Ned is recognised by Chambers & Partners as "particularly good"; he regularly advises on the public, civil and criminal aspects of flood liability. He acted for East Sussex County Council successfully resisting a challenge of its alleged failure to take action to prevent the flooding of property off the highway. He also successfully acted for a local residents' group at a planning inquiry on the accuracy of flood modelling.
Acted for Wandsworth LBC in the challenge to the decision to use Battersea Park for Formula E electric racing
Acted with Craig Howell Williams QC for BAE Systems at the inquiry into and subsequent challenge to bird cull proposals at the Ribble and Alt Estuary Special Protection Area in Lancashire (RSPB v SSEFRA [2015] EWCA Civ 227)
Appeared for Natural England at the inquiry into the called-in application for a 67 hectare solar array at Wroughton Airfield near Swindon
Successfully challenged the grant of permission for the redevelopment of Hartley's Brewery in Ulverston due to inadequate consideration given to heritage protection (R (Hughes) v South Lakeland DC [2014] EWHC 3979 (Admin)
Acted with Robert McCracken QC for INEOS ChlorVinyls at the inquiry into monitoring conditions for the waste incinerator at its Runcorn chemical plant
Represented the Wisely Golf Club in its prosecution by the Environment Agency for various alleged offences under the Thames Region Land Drainage Byelaws
Represented the Wyatt brothers in their appeal against committal for contempt for breaching planning enforcement notices in the Court of Appeal
Acted with Gregory Jones QC for the claimant in R (U & Partners (East Anglia) Ltd) v Broads Authority [2011] EWHC 1824 (Admin), a challenge to the Environment Agency's flood control works in Norfolk, which confirmed that the requirement of "promptitude" does not apply to judicial reviews under the EIA Directive
Ned is rated as a leading junior in environmental law by Chambers & Partners which has commented that he is "one of the best juniors in this area" (2018), "very responsive, hard-working and bright" (2017), clearly has a passion for the subject, is always in command of his papers and is good on his feet" (2016) and that ''he will be one of the greats of the future'' (2015). Ned regularly talks and writes on environmental law and has an LLM (environmental laws) from UCL, where he is a visiting researcher.
Ned has a solid and practical knowledge of planning law including high profile development proposals and technical enforcement or lawful development certificate work. He has acted for applicants, local authorities and third party objectors in many different contexts
Ned also has experience of major infrastructure cases under the Planning Act 2008 and Transport and Works Act 1992. Work includes on three current schemes: Manston Airport, Tilbury 2 and the Stonehenge tunnel. He appeared at examinations into the following DCO applications: the Able Marine Energy Park on the Humber Estuary, the Thames Tideway Tunnel and the Navitus Bay Wind Farm, where he presented the successful objection on behalf of Natural England. Ned acted for the MMO in its representations on the draft Northern Line Extension Transport and Works Act Order and for Natural England at the resumed inquiry into the Transport and Works Act Order for Chiltern Railway's Oxford-Bicester line upgrade.
Current and recent hearing and inquiry work includes gypsy and traveller cases, hotel/office development on Farringdon Road in London, major redevelopment for the provision of extra care in Sidmouth, lawfulness of historic residential development in Dorset and acting for Highways England at the Wisley Airfield inquiry into proposals for more than 2,000 homes in the Surrey Green Belt. Chambers & Partners comments that Ned's "method of questioning and cross-examining is impressive, he's firm but fair".
Ned has considerable experience of housing land supply cases under the NPPF and local plan policies. He has acted at numerous planning appeals and statutory challenges relating to housing development including a recent High Court challenge by Bovis and Miller Homes of the refusal to grant permission for 650 homes in Cheltenham (Bovis Homes Ltd and Miller Homes v SSCLG [2016] EWHC 2952 (Admin)). Ned has given advice on starter homes and the application of government policy to a number of clients, including the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation.
Ned is acting and has acted in a number of planning judicial reviews and statutory challenges, including R (Usher) v Forest Heath DC [2017] EWHC 2511 (Admin), Akhtar v SSCLG [2017] EWHC 1840 (Admin), New Dawn Homes Ltd v SSCLG [2016] EWHC 3314 (Admin), Kestrel Hydro v SSCLG [2016] EWCA Civ 784, Forster v SSCLG [2016] EWCA Civ 609, Doncaster MBC v SSCLG [2016] EWHC 2876 (Admin), R (Harper) v South Oxfordshire DC [2014] EWHC 1331 (Admin), R (Evans) v Basingstoke and Deane BC [2013] EWCA Civ 1635, R (Feeney) v SST [2013] EWHC 1238 (Admin) and R (U & Partners (East Anglia) Ltd) v Broads Authority [2011] EWHC 1824 (Admin).
He has wide experience of lawful development certificate, planning enforcement, prosecution and committal proceedings. Notable cases in these areas include Kestrel Hydro v SSCLG [2016] EWCA Civ 784 (on the scope and nature of the 'Murfitt principle'), Ravensdale Ltd v SSCLG [2016] EWHC 2374 (Admin), Pathfield Estates Ltd v Haringey LBC [2013] EWHC 2053 (Admin) and Oxfordshire CC v Wyatt Brothers (Oxford) Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1921.
Acted for Barnet London Borough Council in committal proceedings for breach of an injunction under s.187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Acted for Islington London Borough Council at the Chadwell Street Car Park inquiry, involving substantial basement development (reported at [2017] PAD 22)
Acted with Andrew Tait QC for the Garden Bridge Trust twice successfully resisting judicial review challenges (the latest of which was determined in October 2016: R (O'Neill) v London Borough of Lambeth [2016] EWHC 2551 (Admin)
Appeared with Morag Ellis QC for Camden in Athlone House Ltd v SSCLG [2015] EWHC 3524 (Admin), a challenge to the refusal of an appeal for controversial redevelopment proposals on Metropolitan Open Land
Acted for the promoter of a large inland marina at Ratcliffe-on-Soar on appeal against Nottinghamshire County Council's non-determination of the application
Appeared for a local action group opposing wind development that would have had an impact on Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire
Resisted a contested appeal against Kings Lynn and West Norfolk BC's refusal to issue a certificate of lawful use (reported at JPL 2012 (7) 858-876)
Appeared with Keith Lindblom QC (as he then was) for the Friends of St Katharine Docks in their successful third party objection to major redevelopment proposals
Made representations to the Examination in Public of the latest version of the London Plan, England's only surviving Regional Strategy
Successfully acted for the appellant in a planning enforcement appeal regarding houseboats on the Driffield Navigation, Yorkshire (Planning Magazine, 22 October 2010, page 35) - his first planning inquiry
Ned is recognised as a leading junior in planning law by Chambers & Partners which has commented that he is "a brilliant, very modern barrister" (2018), "very reliable, personable and very good at what he does" (2017), "he has a very, very good, sharp mind and adopts a very thorough approach to his preparation of cases" (2016), ''he's excellent ... very calm and articulate, very quick on his feet, and thinks strategically" (2015) and ''[he] is absolutely fantastic, does excellent work and is a roaring success'' (2014). Ned is a member of PEBA.
Ned regularly appears at village green inquiries for landowners and local inhabitants. He has an excellent knowledge of the practice and procedures of village green law and has benefited greatly from working with village green experts at FTB and from his time as pupil to Philip Petchey. Ned acted for Long Live Southbank in their challenge to Lambeth Council's interpretation of 'trigger events' to preclude a village green application for the undercroft skate park beneath Queen Elizabeth Hall. He also represented local inhabitants in two cases on the de-registration of town and village greens under section 14 of the Commons Registration Act 1965 in the Supreme Court: Taylor v Betterment Properties (Weymouth) Ltd and Paddico (267) Ltd v Adamson: [2014] UKSC 7. He recently acted for local residents resisting a challenge to the registration of land at Moorside Fields in Lancaster in the High Court and Court of Appeal (Lancashire County Council v SSEFRA [2016] EWHC 1238 (Admin) and [2018] EWCA Civ 721).
Ned also regularly advises on highways law, rights of way and commons. He has appeared at inquiries under the Commons Act 2006, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and Highways Act 1980. He has acted for order-making authorities, footpath users, landowners and amenity groups including the Ramblers' Association, British Horse Society, Trail Riders Fellowship and Green Lanes Association. Recent cases include acting for the successful objector to a definitive map modification order in Buckinghamshire and acting for Natural England at the first inquiry into an objection to a proposal for the England Coast Path under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, inland of the Fleet in Dorset (determination outstanding).
Recent advice includes on the extent of the highway, the lawfulness of the use of rights of way for events and the provision of cycle tracks.
Of particular note on common land, Ned acted for Ealing London Borough Council in its successful application to deregister part of Haven Green in order to facilitate the retention of an award-winning cycle hub.
Represented Kent County Council at the inquiry into its making of concurrent stopping up and creation orders along Faversham Creek, which were consented in March 2018
Acted for Havering London Borough Council at an inquiry into a stopping up and diversion order under s.259 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Acted for Kent County Council at the inquiry into a network of footpaths and bridleways proposed by modification order in Aylesford and Burham
Acted for Ashfield DC and Muse Developments Ltd in relation to the proposed diversion of a footpath at Hucknall to facilitate redevelopment of the Rolls Royce site
Acted for Save Chaucer Fields at the inquiry to register the slopes to the south of the university in Canterbury as a village green, the case involved the determination of a preliminary issue about the retrospective effect of s.15(7)(b) of the Commons Act 2006
Acted for East Sussex County Council and successfully upholding its objection to a definitive map modification order that sought to downgrade a restricted byway to a footpath in the parishes of Heathfield and Warbleton
Successfully resisted the confirmation of a definitive map modification order to upgrade a footpath across the Squerryes Estate in Kent to a bridleway based on evidence from 1957-1977
Acted for Linden Homes in its successful objection to an application to register the 'Public Square' outside of Willesden Green Library Centre as a town or village green
Acted for Islington LBC in its successful objection to an application to register housing estate land at Marie Lloyd Gardens as a town or village green
Acted for the successful landowner in the Rydens Way case (junior counsel to Douglas Edwards QC), the case was heard as a non-statutory inquiry on the legal point only and established that the doctrine of res judicata applies to prevent repeat village green applications in relation to the same area of land (reported at JPL 2012 (4) 497-520
Represented the Epping Forest Riders Association in their objection to Essex County Council's introduction of cattle grids to the Epping Forest
Appeared for Shipbourne Parish Council in their successful opposition to the controversial proposed diversion of a footpath in the Kent Downs AONB
Ned regularly writes and advises on highways issues and has carried out training for the RWLR and the Planning Inspectorate on rights of way and commons matters. Ned is recognised as a leading junior in agriculture and rural affairs by Chambers & Partners which has commented that "his written work in complex cases puts him on a par with many QCs" (2018), “he is extremely thorough and very good at picking out case law" (2017), "he has a good command of the planning process and is very strategic..." and that "[h]e rolls up his sleeves and gets stuck in, and is easy to work with" (2016).
Ned has acted at a number of compulsory purchase order inquiries, including on orders in Solihull and Enfield. He appeared with James Pereira QC for Hillingdon and the Canal and River Trust in the Southall Gas Works CPO inquiry.
Ned has advised on compensation matters, including as to CPO procedure and the quantum of damages for flood damage. He has considerable experience of the Upper Tribunal, including Palliser v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2018] UKUT 71 (LC), Turnbull v Goodwyn School & Ors [2016] UKUT 62 (LC) and Chakravorty v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2014] UKUT 184 (LC). He recently acted for Newham London Borough Council in Upper Tribunal proceedings for CPO compensation. Ned was successful counsel for the local authority in Edem v Basingstoke and Deane BC [2012] EWHC 2433 (Admin), a case on council tax exemptions. He has also appeared at the Valuation Tribunal for England.
R (Dowley) v SSCLG [2016] EWHC 2618 (Admin), in which Ned was junior to Gregory Jones QC, was a case that addressed the relationship between compensation provisions and the right of access onto land under s.53 of the Planning Act 2008.
Ned has wider and more general experience of a range of areas of public law such as licensing, education, immigration and community care.
In particular, Ned has a good understanding of local government law and regularly advises local authorities on a range of public law issues, including the extent of their duties and the scope of their powers. He has acted in housing possession and disrepair claims, advised on the funding arrangements for academies and drafted pre-action correspondence on the lawfulness of local authority constitutional arrangements. Recent advice includes on public space protection orders and oyster fisheries.
He has also been involved in a number of matters relating to the provisions in the Localism Act 2011, including R (O'Neill) v London Borough of Lambeth [2016] EWHC 2551 (Admin) (on, among other things, the general power of competence). He has appeared and review hearings and appeals under section 92 (assets of community value) and in December 2017, acted for Ealing London Borough Council in the First Tier Tribunal resisting an appeal against its listing of allotment land as an asset of community value.
In licensing law, Ned has made representations before local authority committees and has appeared in Magistrates' Court appeals - for operators in Islington and Tower Hamlets, for a number of local authorities and for local resident objectors. Ned is a member of the Institute of Licensing and has experience of all aspects of the Licensing Act 2003, as well as closure notices, street trading licences, zoo licensing and dog licensing. He acted pro bono for Lincoln's Inn obtaining an extension to its premises licence for the Great and Old Halls.
Ned acted for the Secretary of State as claimant, defendant and intervener in a number of cases on the interpretation of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 (as amended) culminating in Webb v Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset [2017] EWHC 3311 (Admin).
There is an overlap in Ned's practice with discrete areas of property law, in particular nuisance, land covenants and easements. Ned regularly advises on these issues. A notable recent case was acting for Sussex farmers in their claim for breach of covenant, easement and/or equitable estoppel for a blocked effluent pipe,that was settled at mediation in September 2017. Ned has also appeared at the in front of the Tribunal to the Land Registry and has dealt with boundary disputes in the Magistrates Court.
Public Participation in UK CCS Procedures (with Meyric Lewis) chapter in Carbon Capture and Storage: Emerging Legal and Regulatory Issues (2nd ed. Hart Publishing 2018)
The History and Context of the SEA Directive (with Robert McCracken QC) chapter in Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive: A Plan for Success? (Hart Publishing, 2017)
R (Champion) v North Norfolk District Council, Journal of Environmental Law 2016 28 (3): 523-531
Dealing with "the domino effect" SJ 2016, 160(3), 29
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