Celina Colquhoun
Celina Colquhoun specialises in all aspects of planning; highways; CPO and environmental law including water and sewers & drainage law. She also has good experience in licensing matters.
Celina has been consistently ranked by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners (she is currently in Legal 500 Tier 2 ( London) and Tier 1 (Midlands) and Chambers & Partners Band 4 for Planning). She is also rated by Planning Magazine Legal Survey 2019 as amongst the UK’s top planning juniors.
She has appeared extensively as an advocate in public inquiries and hearings as well as in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
She acts for and advises a very wide range of public bodies and private parties addressing planning development consents, appeals as well as planning enforcement and the promotion of or objection to development related Orders. In addition she has considerable experience in environmental related issues including waste, contamination, air quality and water/drainage matters.
Recent cases of note include UBB-v- Essex County Council [2019] EWHC 1924 for the claimant waste company; acting for the objecting landowner in the Manston Airport DCO ; for the County Highway Authority in The County of Herefordshire (South Wye Transport Package– A4194 Southern Link Road) CPO and SRO ; Binning Property Corp Ltd v SSCLG [2019] EWCA Civ 250 for the appellant; and s.101 Planning Act 2008 advisor to the Examining authority in Thames Tideway Tunnel DCO application by Thames Water.