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Horatio Waller

Summary

Year of call: 2014 Practice areas: Planning, Environment, Licensing, Compulsory Purchase and Compensation, Rating, Local Government, Major Infrastructure Projects, Town and Village Greens and Open Space

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Practice Profile

Horatio's main areas of interest include:

  • Planning and Environment.
  • Licensing.
  • Compulsory Purchase and Compensation.
  • Infrastructure.
  • Rating/Council Tax.
  • Local Government.
  • Village Greens and Commons.
  • Public law, Human Rights and EU law.
  • Anti-social behaviour law.

Recent work includes:

 

  • Wardlaw v Milton Keynes Council and Others [2019] EWHC 669, acting on behalf of a claimant in an out-of-time judicial review challenge concerning a substantial warehouse development which was granted permission without several planning conditions that the Council’s development control committee intended to impose.  
  • Post-Brexit system of environmental law protection, assisting in advising the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the system he should devise to replace the role of the European Commission in enforcing environmental law standards after Brexit.
  • The Elms, Tockington, acting on behalf of a planning authority in a week-long inquiry into an enforcement notice it issued on a site in South Gloucestershire as well as a related s78 appeal.
  • Various Claimants v Secretary of State for Transport (Heathrow Runway 3) [2018] EWHC CO/2760; [2018] CO/3071; [2018] 3089/2018; [2018] 3147/2018; [2018] 3149/2018, instructed in this landmark case concerning a third runway at Heathrow as proposed by the Government’s Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS). Horatio is instructed as junior counsel by the Secretary of State to assist defending various judicial review challenges against the ANPS.
  • Crondall Parish Council v Secretary of State and Others [2018] EWHC CO/3900 (Admin), acting on behalf of a claimant in a s288 challenge regarding a housing development outside defined settlement boundaries in Hart District which was permitted without a habitats appropriate assessment.
  • William Terry v Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council and Others [2018] EWHC CO/4789 (Admin), acting on behalf of a local authority defendant in a judicial review challenge concerning a housing development.
  • Marks & Spencer v London Borough of Islington, acting on behalf of a supermarket operator in a licensing appeal.
  • Stratford On Avon District Council v James, Hugh and Emma Forsyth, acting on behalf of a local authority in council tax enforcement proceedings.

Horatio is an experienced advocate. He has appeared on several occasions before the High Court in connection with planning judicial reviews, statutory challenges and enforcement proceedings. Horatio’s planning advocacy experience also includes appearances before planning inspectors in inquiries, appeals and local plan examinations, as well as appearances before magistrates’ courts. Horatio’s other practice areas involve regular appearances in front of the Crown Court (including the Old Bailey), the magistrates’ court, licensing committees and the First-Tier Tribunal on behalf of operators, the Metropolitan Police, local authorities and other clients. In addition, Horatio has considerable experience providing written opinions to clients on planning, environmental, infrastructure, licensing and police law matters.

 

 

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