Alan Evans

Practice:

Town and country planning
Highways
Public rights of way
Village greens
Compulsory purchase

Profile:  

Alan specialises in town and country planning, highways, public rights of way, village greens and compulsory purchase. He has been involved in numerous significant planning inquiries for all kinds of development, including housing, shopping, leisure, windfarms, waste disposal, minerals and dock facilities, and has promoted several road schemes and compulsory purchase orders.

Alan has had wide experience of his specialist areas of practice before various tribunals and in a wide range of inquiries, including section 78 planning appeals, called-in planning applications, enforcement appeals, lawful use certificate appeals, local plan inquiries, highways inquiries, rights of way inquiries, compulsory purchase inquiries and boundary commission inquiries. Alan also undertakes town or village green and commons work and sits as an independent inspector holding non-statutory public inquiries into applications for new greens. He regularly advises both in conference and in writing in his main areas of practice and also more generally in the local government sphere.

Alan has had wide experience in both lower and higher courts and undertakes judicial review work.

Significant Reported Cases:

Manning v South Lakeland DC [2005] JPL 1646 (lawful use certificates)

Wilkinson v Rossendale BC [2003] JPL 82 (s.73 applications)

Staffordshire County Council v NGR [2003] JPL 56 (inconsistent planning permissions) (Court of Appeal)

Bhattacharjee v Blackburn with Darwen BC [2002] RVR 55 (compulsory purchase)

R v Derbyshire CC, ex p. Murray [2002] EWCA Civ 31 (waste disposal) (Court of Appeal)

Tate v Hart [1999] PNLR 787 (Legal Aid Regulations) (Court of Appeal)

Shaik v Bolton MBC (1998) 75 P & CR 1 (compulsory purchase) (Court of Appeal)

 U.K. Waste Management v West Lancashire DC [1997] RTR 201 (road traffic regulation orders)

Bolton MBC v Jolley [1989] 1 P.L.R. 97 (listed buildings) (Court of Appeal)

Memberships:

Planning and Environment Bar Association
Administrative Law Bar Association

Panels:

Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel)

 

 

 

 

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Cambridge

Law (MA, LLB) (both first class honours)

1978 Lincoln's Inn
Mansfield Scholar

Lecturer in Law at Manchester University (1978 - 1985)
Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel) (2000)

Member of the panel of legal assessors for the General Medical Council (2002)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Evans

 

Year of Call:  1978

Specialises In:
Planning, Environment & Public Law

Clerked by:
 William Brown

 

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