Richard Buxton Solicitors: court cases and practice areas

Practice areas

Public and administrative law352
Planning and environment318
Real estate8
Crime2
Civil liberties and human rights2

Courts

Supreme Court6
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)112
High Court266

Counsel most often instructed

Richard Harwood32
Andrew Parkinson16
Annabel Graham Paul15
David Wolfe14
Jenny Wigley14
Piers Riley-Smith14
Jeremy Hyam13
Estelle Dehon12

Judgments by year

20269
202512
202418
202315
202212
202113
202012
201912
201816
201710
201622
201528
201433
201337
201223
201116
201019
200914
200813
200713

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Richard Buxton Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date	Case	Cited by
8 Sep 2017	Mansell vTonbridge And Malling Borough Council [2017] EWCA Civ 1314 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Under Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, the 450-square-metre limit applies to the cumulative floor…	192
6 Dec 2017	Dover District Council v CPRE Kent [2017] UKSC 79 · Supreme Court A local planning authority determining environmental impact assessment development must publish intelligible and adequate main reasons. The reasons must…	94
22 Feb 2011	Bateman, R (on the application of) v South Cambridgeshire District Council & Anor [2011] EWCA Civ 157 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) A negative environmental impact assessment screening opinion must contain, or be accompanied by, sufficient information to show that adequate screening has…	60
26 Feb 2014	Coventry and others v Lawrence and another [2014] UKSC 13 · Supreme Court Private nuisance by noise depends on whether the interference with the reasonable enjoyment of land is objectively unacceptable in its locality. A defendant’s…	53
25 Apr 2018	Goring-On-Thames Parish Council, R (on the application of) v South Oxfordshire District Council & Anor [2018] EWCA Civ 860 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) The jurisdiction to reopen a final appeal or refusal of permission under CPR 52.30 requires exceptional circumstances, real injustice and no alternative…	41
10 Oct 2008	Finn-Kelcey v Milton Keynes Council & Anor [2008] EWCA Civ 1067 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) A judicial review claim must be filed both promptly and within three months. Filing within three months does not itself satisfy the separate requirement of…	30
9 Sep 2020	Gathercole v Suffolk County Council [2020] EWCA Civ 1179 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) A public authority must have due regard to the needs identified by the public sector equality duty. Generic mitigation measures do not themselves demonstrate…	30
18 Jan 2012	Bowen-West v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 321 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) For environmental impact assessment scoping, the project is ordinarily the development for which authorisation is sought. A proposal does not become part of a…	28
27 Mar 2003	Bellway Urban Renewal Southern v Gillespie [2003] EWCA Civ 400 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) In an environmental impact assessment screening decision, the decision-maker must assess the whole proposed project, including remedial measures that form an…	26
19 Dec 2003	Orme & Anor v North Yorkshire County Council & Anor [2003] EWCA Civ 1860 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) For environmental impact assessment development, the relevant decision under regulation 3(2) is the written grant of planning permission, rather than the…	24

Recent cases

Date	Case	Cited by
2 Oct 2026	Green Lane Association Limited v Oxford County Council [2026] EWHC 2508 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court This paper determination records a consent outcome, not a contested ruling on the validity of traffic regulation orders. The court quashed an order after the…
30 Sep 2026	Alex Johnstone, R (on the application of) v Rother District Council [2026] EWHC 2493 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Where a local authority accepts that a consultation defect may have prejudiced a claimant’s ability to assess evidence and make representations, potentially…
20 Jul 2026	Faversham Town Council, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government & Ors [2026] EWHC 1651 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Where the NPPF requires a Sequential Test, it must be undertaken before any Exception Test; mitigation cannot be used to bypass that sequence. A failure to…
2 Jul 2026	Bronwen Manby, R (on the application of) v The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Hackney [2026] EWHC 1543 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An SPD may supply a material planning consideration, but its guidance is not part of the statutory development plan and does not create a presumption against…
15 May 2026	Mudford Parish Council v Somerset Council [2026] EWHC 1166 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Planning allocation policies must be interpreted by the court in their planning context and by reference to the development plan read as a whole. An allocation…	1
19 Mar 2026	Oliver Perrin, R (on the application of) v North Devon District Council [2026] EWHC 535 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court A planning committee departing from a finely balanced officer recommendation must give intelligible reasons addressing the principal controversial issues.…
13 Mar 2026	Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Limited [2026] EWCA Civ 264 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the court must make its own assessment of whether an injunction is appropriate to restrain a…
6 Mar 2026	Camilla Swire, R (on the application of) v Canterbury City Council [2026] EWHC 478 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Whether development is likely to have significant environmental effects is an evidence-based planning judgment. The threshold requires more than a bare…
12 Jan 2026	Green Lane Association Limited & Anor v Central Bedfordshire Council [2026] EWHC 26 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An experimental traffic order must identify a genuine experiment and explain its purpose. The statement of reasons must describe the nature of the experiment…
11 Nov 2025	Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Limited [2025] EWHC 2937 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division An injunction under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is discretionary. The court must decide whether it is just and convenient, and…
2 Sep 2025	Green Lane Association Limited v Central Bedfordshire Council [2025] EWHC 2251 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Applicants seeking Aarhus costs protection must comply with the procedural timetable requiring the protection to be claimed at the outset and any challenge or…
1 Sep 2025	Somani Hotels Ltd v Epping Forest District Council [2025] EWCA Civ 1134 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) For an interim planning injunction, the court must assess the balance of convenience in its statutory context and minimise the risk of injustice. A defendant’s…	1

Earlier names

These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Richard Buxton Solicitors: Richard Buxton Environmental & Public Law.

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Richard Buxton Solicitors is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Richard Buxton Solicitors. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.