“Daniel Whittle is dynamic and creative”
Legal 500 UK, 2024
About
Danny is a senior associate in the Planning & Compulsory Purchase team. He joined the team when he qualified in 2017.
He primarily advises clients on consenting regeneration, housing and transport schemes, but also advises water and energy sector clients. He is a specialist in projects underpinned by compulsory purchase, advising both acquiring authorities and landowners affected by compulsory purchase orders. Danny also has a particular focus on contentious planning, including High Court challenges, public inquiries and planning enforcement.
Danny has significant experience and interest in heritage planning issues, and he has presented webinars and authored a range of articles and blogs on heritage law and policy.
Experience
- North Somerset Council: Advising on the successful promotion of the compulsory purchase orders, planning permission and side roads order for the Banwell Bypass, a £100 million scheme partly required to facilitate the delivery of new housing.
- Bath & North East Somerset Council: Advising on consenting and compulsory purchase issues relating to the promotion of a commercial regeneration project in the Somer Valley.
- Historic England: Advising on planning inquiries relating to impacts on heritage assets, including the planning inquiry for the ‘Tulip’ viewing platform which was refused consent due to impacts on the Tower of London World Heritage Site.
- ENGIE/Equans: Advising on securing planning permission for a 2,300 home residential-led mixed use regeneration of the former Rugeley Power Station, including the negotiation of the section 106 agreement.
- Railway operator: Advising on an enforcement appeal and connected judicial reviews relating to the development of operational rail land.
- Environment Agency: Advising on planning, acquisition and compulsory purchase relating to the Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme and the promotion of the Unlocking the Severn project (promoted jointly with the Canal & River Trust).
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2017)