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Provided by Richard Broadbent
Richard was a solicitor at Natural England since 2010 and was the Head of Legal Services since 2017. Richard led on many of Natural England’s high-profile litigation and enforcement cases and provided advice to Natural England’s teams on the emergence of the Environment Act 2021 and Nature Green Paper. Richard is a highly distinguished environmental lawyer and has worked on a number of high-profile nationally significant infrastructure, planning, and species licencing cases. These include nuclear power stations, offshore windfarms, port developments and HS2.
Richard trained at Collyer Bristow LLP in London and holds an LLM in Environmental Law from UCL.
Provided by Chambers
Richard Broadbent is frequently instructed by public sector clients to work on a range of environmental issues, such as abstraction licences and planning permission. He has in-depth knowledge of natural environmental law and natural capital law.
Provided by Chambers
Richard is very detail-focused and has valuable experience working with regulatory agencies.
Richard Broadbent has exceptional knowledge and insight into nature law and is great to work with.
Richard is very detail-focused and has valuable experience working with regulatory agencies.
Richard Broadbent has exceptional knowledge and insight into nature law and is great to work with.