Ashley Bowes

Practice Areas

Dr Ashley Bowes is a leading specialist in all aspects of the development and use of land, including planning, property, licensing and local government law. He has particular expertise in resolving public access to land disputes, involving the sub-specialisms of rights of way, village greens, commons and highways law.

He is a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, in which capacity he represents the UK Government in his areas of specialism. He also regularly acts for developers, landowners, promoters and investors as well as local authorities and individuals.

Ashley provides legal and strategic advice at every stage of the development consent process: from navigating local plan examinations, handling access and restrictive covenant issues, through to contested planning applications and appeals and onto litigation in the courts.

He is the General Editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s Journal of Planning & Environment Law and the author of Oxford University Press’s textbook, A Practical Approach to Planning Law, as well as being a contributor to Butterworths Planning Law Service, the Routledge Handbook of Comparative Planning Law and to Cornerstone on the Planning Court (2nd Ed).