Year of call: 2017
Arevik has a planning, licensing and highways practice.
She acts for both developers and local authorities. She is an experienced cross-examiner and regularly appears at contested hearings, public inquiries and prosecutions of planning offences.
Arevik also regularly acts in licensing appeals.
She has a wide range of knowledge and experience in assisting her clients with a variety of planning matters – ranging from advising on certificates of lawfulness, Tree Preservation Orders, planning appeals, judicial reviews, issues surrounding permitted development rights, changes of use, planning injunctions, enforcement appeals and others.
Prior to coming to the bar, Arevik worked at two different law firms and for one of the UK government departments, representing the latter as an advocate in the First-Tier Tribunal.
Arevik is authorised to accept instructions directly from members of the public.
She is a long-standing mentor of the Mentoring for Underrepresented Groups at the Planning, Public Law and Property Bar Scheme.
Arevik has a particular specialism in planning law. She accepts instructions from developers, local authorities and interested parties. She is direct access qualified.
Arevik regularly advices clients in respect of contentious and non-contentious planning matters and holds expertise in a variety of subjects ranging from permitted development rights, retrospective applications, discharge of conditions, Article 4 directions and others.
Arevik accepts instructions in respect of judicial reviews and appeals. Most recently, Arevik has acted as a junior in a public inquiry, assisting a developer client in securing a planning permission for 150 homes.
