Celina Colquhoun

Practice Areas

Celina Colquhoun specialises in all aspects of planning and environmental law, including, in particular, highways, DCO, and CPO matters and has experience in licensing as well. Her practice also involves a considerable degree of wider Administrative and Local Government Law. She appears extensively as an advocate in public inquiries and hearings as well as in the High Court and Court of Appeal.

Celina acts for and advises a very wide range of public bodies and private parties in relation to to all forms of development, from application stage to appeal. In addition she specialises in planning enforcement matters and the promotion of or objection to development related Orders.

In July 2020 Celina was appointed as a member of the six person panel constituting the Government’s Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL) chaired by Lord Faulks. This reported to the Government in early 2021 leading ultimately to changes to Judicial Review legislation.

Her early Planning Bar career began with major national infrastructure planning projects and in particular she represented the Government’s Airports Policy Division as well as the (then) Highways Agency at the 1995-99 Heathrow Terminal 5 inquiry.

Professional Memberships

 Planning and Environmental Law Bar Association PEBA

 Compulsory Purchase Association CPA

 National Infrastructure Planning Association NIPA

 Administrative Law Bar Association ALBA

 United Kingdom Environmental Law Association UKELA

 Parliamentary Bar Mess PBM

 BAR COUNCIL elected member – European U Law Committee (Co-Chair) and Law Reform Committee (Co Vice Chair)

 EUROPEAN CIRCUIT of the BAR