Antoniamurillo Is an Associate in the Planning and Infrastructure Team at Bond Dickinson

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AntoniaMurillo is an associate in the Planning and Infrastructure Team at Bond Dickinson. She originally qualified as a litigation solicitor, spending five years in private practice. Antonia then retrained as a planning lawyer completing a Masters Degree at London University after which she spent over six years advising district and county councils on all aspects of planning, highways, rights of way, town and village green matters and Compulsory Purchase Orders. She specialises in planning litigation.

Antonia has advised public and private clients on a range of issues, including judicial review matters, Compulsory Purchase Orders in respect of major housing regeneration projects, and mixed use CPO projects and an unusual case of an injunction where an acquiring authority believed it had acquired a large tranche of a client’s land by way of Compulsory Purchase Order and hadn't. In addition she advised the first acquiring authority in the North East to successfully use new powers of the Acquiring Authority confirming its CPO introduced under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. She also advises in relation to town and village green matters (which have proceeded to public inquiry).

Antonia has advised Councils as Commons Registration Authorities in respect of applications to register land as town and village green. She has also advised where Councils were both Commons Registration Authority and land owner. When advising Councils as CRA she managed all aspects of the TVG application process including the public inquiry. She has also advised private landowners including national house builders regarding Town and Village Green issues and provides TVG training.

John Hunter practices in public, planning and environmental law from Kings Chambers. He appears regularly in the planning and administrative courts in claims for judicial review and similar statutory proceedings. Significant recent cases have included: Lawson Builders Limited v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (implementation of planning permissions), R oao Newhaven Port and Properties Ltd v East Sussex CC (town and village greens), R oaoGra Acquisition Ltd) v Oxford CC (conservation areas), R oao Timmins v Gedling BC (NPPF green belt policy), R oaoRedrow v Knowsley MBC (s38 highways agreements)”

Katy McPhie is a Solicitor in the Planning and Infrastructure Team at Bond Dickinson.

Katy joined the firm in 2012 and is based in the Leeds office. Prior to training as a solicitor she was a planning enforcement officer at the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council for a number of years. Katy is on the steering committee for the Young Persons Compulsory Purchase Association and helps to arrange nationwide seminars on the subject at a more introductory level. Katy has a range of experience including advising waste operators at public inquiries, negotiating 106 Agreements on behalf of developers and registered providers, and advising property developers on prospective purchases of sites with long and varied enforcement history.

Freddie Humphries joined Kings Chambers in October 2013 upon successful completion of his pupillage.

He accepts instructions in all areas of Town and Country Planning, including housing, retail, highways, enforcement and minerals. Freddie has advisory experience in all of these areas, and appears in planning inquiries, enforcement inquiries, and enforcement prosecutions and appeals.

Freddie is regularly instructed to assist in preparing planning application documentation and representations to examinations in public.

He accepts instructions in the field of Highways Law, including advisory work and appearances at public path and definitive map modification order inquiries.

Freddie also advises on Town and Village Green applications and has experience in preparing Town and Village Green applications.

Freddie has experience in all aspects of Licensing law, including Premises licensing, Gambling and S.E.V licensing. Freddie is adept at advising local authorities having undertaken a secondment to Birmingham City Council’s legal services Licensing team. Freddie has advised local authorities at committee hearing and also appears on behalf of Premises owners and objectors at committee hearings, reviews and appeals concerning applications made under the Licensing Act, and for S.E.V licences.

Freddie appears in taxi licensing cases both for local authorities and appellants involving both hackney carriage and private hire vehicles. He has advised on the formulation and implementation of local authority taxi licensing policy.

Freddie is regularly instructed to draft papers in statutory challenges and Judicial Review proceedings in the High Court. Freddie has experience appearing in the High Court on planning matters.

Freddie has been appointed to the Home Office panel to appear as a presenting officer and regularly appears at immigration appeals in the First-Tier tribunal. Freddie accepts instructions in all areas of Public Law.

Martin Carter, Kings Chambers practises in all areas of Town and Country Planning. He undertakes advisory work and appears at inquiries and in Court in respect of his practice areas. He regularly appears before planning inquiries throughout England and Wales and the Administrative Court in those specialisms. He has appeared in the Courts at all levels in England and Wales, including the Supreme CourtHe appears for both local planning authority and developer clients. Martin also accepts cases in respect of planning proposals in the Isle of Man.

He has particular experience of renewable energy schemes. He has appeared at over a dozen inquiries relating to wind farm proposals, including schemes dealt with under the Electricity Act 1989.

Martin regularly undertakes work relating to retail proposals and is experienced in dealing with cases which raise issues of retail impact assessment.

His inquiry work in connection with housing has also given him experience in dealing with the assessment of five year housing land requirements and supply. Since the NPPF was issued, he has been involved in some of the largest and most controversial inquiries in the North West and elsewhere which raise issues of housing land supply.

He has significant experience in dealing with minerals and waste cases and promoted both the Cumbria Minerals and Waste Local Plan and the Cheshire Waste Local Plan for the planning authorities.

He also has extensive experience of promoting and opposing compulsory purchase orders, particularly in respect of regeneration schemes. He also accepts cases concerning disputed compensation before the Lands Tribunal and works with clients to achieve appropriate negotiated solutions.

Martin also undertakes work in the area of Town and Village Greens. He appears for both applicants and objectors at informal inquiries and also regularly acts as inspector at such inquiries in order to make recommendations to the registration authority.

Martin works in the field of Highways Law, including advisory work and appearances at public path and definitive map modification order inquiries.

Martin also has significant experience in environmental law, especially in relation to the issues surrounding Environmental Impact Assessment, waste disposal and management and complex statutory nuisance cases, including noise from motor racing and vehicle testing activities.

Martin also practises in the areas of Local Government Law and public law, particularly as regards Local Government powers, structure and procedure.

He often delivers lectures and seminars in his practice areas to the Royal Town Planning Institute, Local Government Group and others.

Frank Orr is a legal director and Head of the Planning and Infrastructure Team in Bond Dickinson’s Newcastle Office. He specialises in planning, compulsory purchase and compensation law acting for both public sector and private sector clients. He has advised clients on : compulsory purchase orders; compensation; major planning applications and appeals; Environmental Impact Assessment; highways schemes; infrastructure projects; minerals and Mining Code issues; High Court challenges to decisions of the Secretary of State; judicial reviews of decisions Local Planning Authorities; Lawful Development Certificates and enforcement matters.

Frank’s compulsory purchase experience is extensive and varied. He has acted in respect of over 40 CPOs including major Housing Market Renewal projects, town centre regeneration and redevelopment schemes (involving mixed use, retail and leisure), highways schemes, as well as CPOs relating to schools, listed buildings, public open space and allotments. He also has specialist experience of Transport and Works Act Orders, Development Consent Orders submitted to the IPC, Harbour Empowerment Orders, other statutory undertakers use of CPO, including Electricity Act CPOs and compensation arising from the powers of water, gas and railway undertakers. Frank also acts in respect of claims for compensation including references to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber).