Sasha White KC

Practice Areas

Sasha specialises in all areas of Planning, Local Government and Judicial Review. In the past 15 years he has appeared in over 250 planning public inquiries and appeared in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court over 50 times.

Winner of Legal 500 Planning Silk of the Year 2024.

In the past 5 years he:

- Represented the LPA in the Westferry call in inquiry and the High Court proceedings.

- Represented the developers in gaining permission for 400 houses in the Green Belt in Little Chalfont.

- Represented the developers in the B and Q Cricklewood call in inquiry for 1000 houses.

- Represented the developers in the Bury St Edmund inquiry for 1300 houses.

- Instructed in the Marlow Film Studios inquiry programmed for 2025.

Career

Sasha joined the Bar in 1991 and gained tenancy in 1993 in the Chambers of Lionel Read.

He has practiced from the same chambers for the past 30 years.

He took silk in 2013.

He has worked for most of the leading solicitors, planning consultants and developers in the UK.

He was head of the planning group at Landmark from 2020-2023.

Professional Memberships

Planning and Environmental Bar Association.

Bar of England and Wales.

Publications

Planning Appeals - CLT [1997]

Personal

Director of Kent County Cricket Club and previously of Middlesex County Cricket Club.

Chair of the Home Counties Premier Cricket League.

Plays Tennis, Cricket, Football, Skiing, and Cycling.

Has run 4 marathons and 21 half marathons.