Angus Walker
Partner
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Location
London
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Profile
Services
Angus Walker specialises in acting for clients who wish to promote or oppose applications for development consent orders (DCOs) for nationally significant infrastructure projects under the Planning Act 2008, with a leading practice in this field. He has been working almost exclusively in this area since it came into being in 2008, although he also advises on hybrid bills, transport and works act orders, harbours act orders and other special consents.
Since 2009 he has maintained a blog on the Planning Act 2008 regime that now has over 800 entries and over 1000 subscribers, and has set out the evolution of the infrastructure planning regime since its inception. As a result Angus is regarded as a thought leader in this area.
""The leading infrastructure lawyer of his generation. There is no one with his experience and expertise in nationally significant infrastructure projects.
Legal 500 UK 2020
The great guru of development consent orders.
Chambers and Partners UK 2020
Career highlights
- Leading or assisting on several projects for Highways England: the A63 Castle Street Improvement, the M25 Junction 10 Improvement, the Lower Thames Crossing, and previously the A556 Knutsford to Bowdon Improvement and the A160/A180 Immingham Improvement
- The promotion of the first DCO for a highway project (the Heysham to M6 Link Road), a port project (the Able Marine Energy Park), an airport project (Manston Airport), and likely to be the first business and commercial project (the London Resort) and s21 pipeline project (the Southampton to London Pipeline)
Memberships and professional bodies
related items
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blog
09 October 2020877: Court and other miscellaneous news
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blog
02 October 2020876: Wylfa further delayed as PINS issues virtual advice note
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blog
25 September 2020875: DCO decisions – highway on track, nuclear unclear
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blog
11 September 2020874: Infrastructure planning autumn outlook and news in brief