Keith Lindblom Q.C.
Keith Lindblom was educated at St. John's College, Oxford, the City University and the Inns of court School of Law. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Gray's Inn in July 1980, became a member of Chambers in December 1981 and took Silk in 1996. He was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2002. He is a Recorder , an Assistant Parliamentary Boundary Commissioner and was a founder member of the Planning and Environment Bar Association. He has for many years been member of the Committee of the Oxford Joint Planning Law Conference and is a Governor of the Anglo-American Real Property Institute. He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn. He has practised principally in the law relating to planning, the environment and compulsory purchase and compensation, and in Parliament in the promotion of private Bills. He has a broadly-based practice in planning and environmental law work and has appeared in many public inquiries into large development and infrastructure projects, including the Sizewell B nuclear power station, the East London River Crossing, East Docklands C.P.O., Exeter and Bracknell sub-regional retail developments, the re-development of County Hall in London, London City Airport, Heathrow Terminal 5, the extension and enhancement of the Thameslink railway network, Channel Tunnel Rail Link and the Alconbury Airfield national distribution centre. He appeared both in the Divisional Court and the House of Lords in the conjoined Human Rights Act challenges to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions in planning appeals and called-in application cases (the Alconbury case) and has subsequently appeared in several of the leading cases concerning Human Rights in the planning law context and Environmental Impact Assessment, including the Fulham Football Ground litigation, Gillespie, The Big Yellow and the High Court proceedings concerning Battersea Power Station. In the spring and early summer of 2001 he was in Hong Kong promoting the appeals of the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation against the refusal of an environmental permit and the rejection of its EIA for a new railway across the New Territories. In 2002 he appeared for the Government in Northern Ireland at an inquiry into its Development Scheme and Vesting Order for regeneration in Belfast City Centre. He advised the Mayor of London in the course of the preparation of the London Plan and the City of Westminster Council on its Replacement UDP. In 2003 he appeared for Stanhope and Schroders at the Croydon Gateway appeal inquiry. In 2003 and early 2004 he was involved in promoting for the Government the proposals for asylum seekers' accommodation centres at Bicester and RAF Newton, the former having now emerged successfully from a challenge in the courts, which was taken as far as the Court of Appeal. In 2004 he has appeared for the National Trust at the inquiry into the Highways Agency's road proposals at Stonehenge; and for St. George at the inquiry into their appeal against Lambeth London Borough Council's refusal to permit the erection of what would be the tallest residential building in London, at Vauxhall. He is leading BAA's team in the preparation of proposals for a second runway at Stansted, leading Network Rail's team in the Thameslink 2000 project and has given strategic advice to Stanhope and Chelsfield on their proposals for a major scheme of mixed use regeneration at Stratford in East London, which have now been approved by Newham London Borough Council. |
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