Craig Howell Williams KC

Practice Areas

Craig Howell Williams KC specialises in planning and related areas of public law. He is acknowledged as a leading practitioner in the field and has acted in many high profile cases. He represents developers, landowners, operators, local authorities, and third parties at public inquiries (planning appeals and local plan hearings) and in the Courts and other Tribunals. He is regularly involved in large planning/major infrastructure schemes, including strategic sites, urban extensions, town centre developments, airport expansions, transport infrastructure, local development plans, CPOs, heritage related developments and employment, leisure, retail and other commercial projects. Craig was appointed and has previously served as Junior Counsel to the Crown (B Panel) and since taking silk has appeared in a number of significant court cases.

Craig was appointed by the Secretary of State to serve as the Lead Assistant Commissioner for the West Midlands region to hold hearings and report into proposals to modify Parliamentary constituency boundaries.

He is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator and a member of the RICS President's Mediation Panel.

Professional Memberships

Planning and Environment Bar Association; Parliamentary Bar; United Kingdom Environmental Law Association; National Infrastructure Planning Association; Compulsory Purchase Association; Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.