Francis Taylor Building

Head of Chambers: Simon Bird KC

Senior Clerk: Paul Coveney

Deputy Senior Clerks: James Kemp, Harry Killick

Tenants: 62

THE CHAMBERS:

Francis Taylor Building (FTB) has a long-standing reputation for excellence in providing advocacy and advisory services. FTB is consistently featured as a leading set in the independent legal directories for its expertise and leading role in planning, environmental, licensing, public, compulsory purchase and land valuation, major infrastructure projects, local government, rating, ecclesiastical and religious liberty, highways, commons and open spaces and ADR. Its position at the forefront of these areas of law is evidenced by members consistently appearing in many of the leading cases.

WORK UNDERTAKEN:

As part of its specialist practice, FTB undertakes works connected with planning, environment, licensing, national infrastructure planning projects, transport and works schemes, utilities, highways, heritage and conservation, Parliamentary Bills, common land and village greens, minerals, statutory nuisance and regulation, health and safety, property law including easements and covenants, religious liberty and ecclesiastical, education and energy. FTB maintains a panel of qualified and specialist CEDR and ADR accredited mediators. FTB offers a wide range of client facilities including a dedicated seminar suite to support its established programme of events and an arbitration and mediation suite which complements Chambers’ mediation and ADR expertise. The premises are fully DDA compliant.