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Browne Jacobson LLP Offices

Browne Jacobson LLP
MOWBRAY HOUSE
CASTLE MEADOW ROAD
NOTTINGHAM
NG2 1BJ
England
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Richard Barlow

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Work Department

Insurance and public risk.

Career

With over 30 years’ experience Richard is a partner in our planning, environmental and public law team. Richard and his team provide strategic and development control planning advice. He advises on environmental law and helps clients devise practical solutions and outcomes. Richard advises many organisations on governance, judicial review and vires issues. He regularly advises upon public law risk and how to minimise the risk of challenge when discharging key functions. He acts for a wide range of public and commercial clients.

Richard’s team have advised Natural England and Natural Resources Wales (and their respective predecessors) on over 1,000 matters over the last 25 years.

Richard has provided advice in relation to the following:

  • Newark South – a development of 2,650 houses
  • Chiltern Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation
  • Crystal Palace FC – Selhurst Park redevelopment
  • Biodiversity Net Gain
  • Environmental Compliance for Jigsaw Systems

He is a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Richard is the Chair of the Nottingham Green Partnership and an independent member of the Disciplinary Panel of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Managers.  Richard is also Chair of the UK Environmental Law Association Nature Conservation Working Group.

Trained Hertfordshire County Council; qualified 1989; joined Browne Jacobson from Walker Morris in 1990; partner Browne Jacobson 1999. Publications of note: Practitioner’s contributions to ‘Garner’s Rights of Way’. Former member of the Council of Management of UKELA; legal associate RTPI 1992.

Languages

German.

Memberships

  • Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management Disciplinary Panel – independent member
  • Green Nottingham Partnership – chair

Education

Oulder Hill School, Rochdale; Sheffield University (LLB Hons); Diploma in Local Government Law and Practice (1989).

Leisure

Basford Hall Cricket Club; Sherwood Forest Golf Club.

Lawyer Rankings

West Midlands > Real estate > Environment

Routinely handling biodiversity net gain projects, nuisance abatement notices, and environmental assessments, Browne Jacobson LLP has a strong track record in representing non-departmental public bodies and national trusts. The firm has vast knowledge in the mining, manufacturing, and waste fields, consistently focusing on civil sanctions and enforcement work for corporate clients. Richard Barlow and Laura Hughes co-head the Birmingham-based offering, each specialising in environmental law issues and complex judicial reviews. Andrew Hopkin concentrates on pollution and emission proceedings; and Rachel Lyne is a health and safety law specialist; while Stephanie McGarry advises local authorities and agricultural clients on investigations and inquests.

West Midlands > Real estate > Planning

With an extensive track record in complex traffic management measures and compulsory purchase orders, Browne Jacobson LLP represents an array of clients, including non-departmental public bodies and housing associations. From Birmingham, Richard Barlow and Laura Hughes co-lead the outfit; Barlow focuses on judicial review proceedings, while Hughes is a specialist planning lawyer. Ben Standing concentrates on environmental law issues, and Andrew Hopkin is a regulatory specialist.

East Midlands > Real estate > Planning and environment

(Leading partners)

Richard Barlow – Browne Jacobson LLP

A pre-eminent firm for environmental work, Browne Jacobson LLP‘s planning and environment team acts for major public sector and NGO clients. The environmental expertise is well supported by the public law experience of practice head Richard Barlow, who lends his environmental law, judicial review, and risk management knowledge to local authorities and public bodies. With similar public law experience, Laura Hughes is a key name for nature conservation, while Ben Standing also comes recommended for his experience advising on biodiversity net gain, contaminated land, habitats regulations, and marine matters. Andrew Hopkin leads the criminal compliance and regulatory team, where he handles the prosecution of environmental cases, and Helen Gill leads on biodiversity net gain work.

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