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Provided by Ashley Bowes
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Dr Ashley Bowes is a leading specialist in all aspects of the development and use of land, including planning, property, licensing and local government law. He has particular expertise in resolving public access to land disputes, involving the sub-specialisms of rights of way, village greens, commons and highways law.
He is a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, in which capacity he represents the UK Government in his areas of specialism. He also regularly acts for developers, landowners, promoters and investors as well as local authorities and individuals.
Ashley provides legal and strategic advice at every stage of the development consent process: from navigating local plan examinations, handling access and restrictive covenant issues, through to contested planning applications and appeals and onto litigation in the courts.
He is the General Editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s Journal of Planning & Environment Law and the author of Oxford University Press’s textbook, A Practical Approach to Planning Law, as well as being a contributor to Butterworths Planning Law Service, the Routledge Handbook of Comparative Planning Law and to Cornerstone on the Planning Court (2nd Ed).
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Ashley Bowes has notable experience at inquiry and has appeared in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in planning cases of national significance, including those that have clarified government policy. His work has been impressively broad, from cases testing the interpretation of the Town and Country Act 1990 to appeals concerning the interaction between planning decisions and air quality regulations.
Ashley Bowes is a well-regarded planning practitioner with expertise in agricultural matters. He is frequently instructed in village green and commons disputes. He also has expertise in farm diversification matters, including the development and use of land.
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Provided by Chambers
"Ashley does not mess with irrelevant matters. He has the case law and can interpret it. His advocacy skills are perfect."
"Ashley is extremely good and he's technically precise in his analysis of legal issues."
"Ashley is a formidable barrister. He's very articulate and is persuasive on his feet."
"Ashley brings true brilliance and is a planning maestro."
"Ashley does not mess with irrelevant matters. He has the case law and can interpret it. His advocacy skills are perfect."
"Ashley is extremely good and he's technically precise in his analysis of legal issues."
"Ashley is a formidable barrister. He's very articulate and is persuasive on his feet."
"Ashley brings true brilliance and is a planning maestro."
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