Mark Turner

Mark specialises in Planning and deals with a range of matters including applications and appeals, planning breaches and lawfulness issues (including Certificates of Lawfulness), High Court challenges and Judicial Reviews, section 106 agreements, highways (s38/s278) and drainage (s104) agreements, enforcement, listed buildings, prosecutions for failure to comply with enforcement action, proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (‘POCA’), public rights of way and village greens matters, planning objections, compulsory purchase, and the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).

He acts for a range of clients including PLC housebuilders, SME developers, supermarkets, charities, landowners, farmers, and individuals.

Recent Work Examples

• Public inquiries and hearings relating to housing, renewable energy, waste, and agricultural schemes, as well as public rights of way and commons
• Judicial Reviews and statutory challenges, most recently Thomas Armstrong (Aggregates) Ltd v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government & Ors, which concerned a ROMP (Review of an Old Minerals Permission) appeal
• Section 106 Agreements relating to a variety of developments, including residential schemes and Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
• Advising clients in Wales in respect of Article 4 Directions, second homes and holiday lets
• Advising on a complex matter involving compulsory purchase, a Scheduled Monument, a number of designations including SSSI, a public right of way and a common