Alan Evans

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Year of Call: 1978

Alan specialises in planning, highways, public rights of way, road traffic regulation, town and village greens and compulsory purchase. He has been involved in numerous significant planning inquiries for all kinds of development, including housing, shopping, employment, leisure, windfarms, waste disposal and minerals; he has also promoted several road schemes and compulsory purchase orders. Alan acts for both the public and private sector.

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 and road traffic regulation inquiries, rights of way inquiries, compulsory purchase inquiries and boundary commission inquiries. Alan also undertakes town and village green and commons work and has often acted in the role of an independent inspector holding non-statutory inquiries into applications for new greens. He advises both in conference and in writing in his main areas of practice and also more generally in the local government sphere.

Alan practises in both lower and higher courts in his areas of expertise and undertakes a significant volume of judicial review work, including the defence of immigration and asylum cases on behalf of the Treasury Solicitor. 

Cases

R (on the application of the Co-operative Group) v Northumberland CC [2010] EWHC 373 Admin (screening opinion)

Wilson v Yorkshire Dales NPA [2009] EWHC 1425 (Admin) (road traffic regulation order)

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

Wilkinson v Rossendale BC [2003] JPL 82 (section 73 application)

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

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

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

Tate v Hart [1999] PNLR 787 (Court of Appeal) (legal aid regulations)

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

UK Waste Management v West Lancashire DC [1997] RTR 201 (road traffic regulation order)

Bolton MBC v Jolley [1989] 1 PLR 97 (Court of Appeal) (listed building)

Memberships:

Planning and Environment Bar Association

Administrative Law Bar Association

Career & Education

University:                Cambridge

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

Called:                     1978 Lincoln's Inn. Mansfield Scholar.

Other career details:  Lecturer in Law at Manchester University (1978-1985)

Appointments:           Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel) (2000)

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