Francis Taylor Building Inner Temple London EC4Y 7BY DX: 402 LDE T: 020 7353 8415 F: 020 7353 7622 E: clerks@ftbchambers.co.uk W: www.ftbchambers.co.uk Caroline Daly Year of call 2013 Caroline welcomes instructions to advise and represent clients across all of Chambers' practice areas. Her main areas of interest are: Planning Compulsory Purchase and Compensation Infrastructure Rating Environment Local Government EU law In appropriate cases, Caroline is happy to work on a pro-bono basis. Caroline is currently ranked as one of the top planning barristers under 35 (Planning Magazine, 2018).
Experience Planning Planning Compulsory Purchase and Compensation Infrastructure Rating and Valuation Environment Assets of Community Value Housing Information Requests Caroline has a wide-ranging planning practice and her clients include developers, local authorities and interested parties. She is regularly instructed to advise on, and appear in, planning appeals, judicial reviews and statutory challenges, both as sole counsel and as a junior. Recent work includes: Acting for a waste authority in a 3 day inquiry regarding a green waste composting facility in the Green Belt. Acting for the successful local authority in a 4 day s. 106B inquiry concerning an application by a private school to modify a maximum limit on its pupil numbers under an s.106 agreement. Acting (as junior to Gregory Jones QC) in Skipton Properties Ltd v Craven District Council [2017] EWHC 534 (Admin), a successful judicial review of Craven DC?s adoption of affordable housing guidance on the basis that the guidance was a development plan document under the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012, and ought to have been adopted as such. The case also raised SEA issues. Acting as junior to Douglas Edwards QC in the Court of Appeal (Turner v SSCLG [2015] EWCA Civ 582) in which she and Douglas Edwards QC successfully argued that there was no apparent bias on the part of the inspector at the planning inquiry in relation to the redevelopment of the Shell Centre on the Southbank. Local Plans: Caroline advises on matters relating to local plans. She is well versed in all local plan related issues, including the duty to co-operate, OAN and housing requirements, SEA and Habitats Regulation matters, transport and infrastructure issues, and gypsy and traveller accommodation assessments. She is presently acting for a number of local authorities at various stages in the plan-making process. Specific examples of her involvement include acting for North Hertfordshire District Council at their Examination and advising on the emerging West of England Joint Spatial Plan (in both cases as junior to Suzanne Ornsby QC). She also acts for objectors and is currently instructed by a community group in Hampshire in respect of an emerging plan. Enforcement, Certificates of Lawful Development and Injunctions: Caroline
frequently acts in enforcement and lawful development certificate inquiries and hearings. Examples of her work include appearing for a London borough in an inquiry concerning a large Green Belt site with a number of static homes/cabins in residential use, acting in a hearing concerning the question of whether a structure was sufficiently permanent and fixed to the ground to constitute 'development', and acting in a LDC inquiry in respect of the change of use of a small HMO to separate self-contained flats. She has appeared before the High Court in successful applications for injunctions against gypsies and travellers under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act. Heritage Assets: Caroline has a good understanding of the law relating to heritage assets. She has acted in housing inquiries in which heritage issues have arisen, and is currently acting (as junior to Morag Ellis QC) in an ecclesiastical law case in the Court of Arches relating to the construction of a nursery school in the immediate setting of the Hawksmoor-designed Christ Church, Spitalfields. Planning Conditions, Planning Obligations and CIL: Caroline advises on the adequacy of planning conditions and planning obligations and is experienced in dealing with Regulation 122 compliance issues. She also advises on the steps required to discharge planning conditions. Caroline has advised on the lawfulness of car free clauses in s. 106 agreements in respect of residential development in London boroughs and further afield. Control of Advertisements: Caroline has experience of the advertising consent regime and has assisted landowners seeking to appeal against removal notices issued by local authorities. Caroline is seconded to the planning department at the London Borough of Bexley on an ad hoc basis, where she provides advice on a variety of planning matters and acts as the legal adviser to the planning committee. Compulsory Purchase and Compensation Caroline has a strong interest in compulsory purchase matters and is a member of the Young Compulsory Purchase Association Committee. Caroline has a particular interest in estate regeneration schemes and is presently instructed by Southwark Council (as junior to Melissa Murphy) on the Aylesbury Estate CPO. The inquiry closed in April 2018 with the decision awaited from the Secretary of State. Caroline has also undertaken work on a complex case in the Lands Chamber concerning injurious affection under s.10 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965. Infrastructure Caroline has a keen interest in infrastructure and has worked on a range of infrastructure matters. She has assisted with advising on a DCO for an electrical system, and with the
successful resistance of a s. 288 challenge to the grant of planning permission for the erection of a series of wind turbines with a generating capacity of 49MW in Wales. Rating and Valuation Caroline regularly advises ratepayers and local authorities on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious rating matters. She has appeared on many occasions in the Magistrates' Court on rating matters and has advised in relation to issues including the backdating of liability, empty rates relief (specifically Makro schemes), charitable relief, and the setting aside of liability orders. Caroline was instructed (as junior to Richard Glover QC) on Mainline Pipeline v Colston, a case in the Upper Tribunal regarding the valuation of an oil pipeline. Environment Caroline has experience of a variety of issues relating to environmental law. Recent and ongoing work includes: Acting in a planning hearing regarding a Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG); Assisting with drafting grounds for judicial review on behalf of Friends of the Earth (Northern Ireland) in relation to unlawful sand and gravel extraction at Lough Neagh, the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles. This case involved issues relating to the EIA Directive, Habitats Directive, and obligations under the RAMSAR convention; Assisting with drafting an advice on liability for remediation of contaminated land under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990; Assisting with drafting an opinion on the renewal of old mineral permissions and compliance with the EIA Directive. Assets of Community Value Caroline regularly advises on the law relating to assets of community value. She acted (as junior to Douglas Edwards QC) in the Court of Appeal in Banner Homes v St Albans City and DC [2018] EWCA Civ 1187, which was a challenge to the registration of an open area of land on the basis that the community use made of the land was trespassory use. Banner Homes was the first case concerning assets of community value to go to the Court of Appeal. Caroline also recently represented the City of London in the First-tier Tribunal in resisting a challenge to the first asset of community value registered in the City, the Still and Star public house in Aldgate (4C Hotels v City of London CR/2017/0011). Caroline has also acted in planning appeals concerning land and buildings registered as assets of community value.
Housing Caroline advises on matters relating to the Housing Act 2004. Recent examples relate to: The continuation of a local authority's additional licensing scheme for HMOs; An appeal against an improvement notice issued as an enforcement measure under Part 1 of the Act; The imposition of conditions on a licence subject to a selective licensing regime; HMO Prosecutions. Information Requests Caroline has advised on requests made under the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations in a variety of fields, including in relation to requests for the disclosure Qualifications & Achievements Qualifications BPTC, Kaplan Law School (2012-2013) LLM, University College London (2011-2012) BA(Hons), Law with Legal Studies in Europe (Spanish), Pembroke College, University of Oxford (2007-2011) As part of her undergraduate degree, Caroline participated in the European Erasmus Programme, spending a year studying European, Spanish and Catalan law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Scholarships Prizes Phoenicia Scholarship, Bar European Group (2015) Princess Royal Scholarship, Inner Temple (2012-2013) Arts and Humanities Research Council full Scholarship for LLM at University College London (2011-2012) Winner, UKELA Lord Slynn of Hadley Senior Moot (2015) Martin Wronker Prize for best performance in Administrative Law, University of Oxford (2011) Littleton Chambers Prize for best performance in Labour Law, University of Oxford (2011) Exhibitioner, Pembroke College, University of Oxford (2008-2011)
Lovells Law Prize for High Achievement, Pembroke College, University of Oxford (2008-2009) Prior to coming to the Bar, Caroline worked as a research assistant and teaching fellow in public law at University College London. Caroline also spent a year providing legal assistance to the Dame Janet Smith Review, a private review established by the BBC to investigate issues connected with the Jimmy Savile scandal and the culture and practices of the BBC during the period that he worked there. Professional Memberships Caroline is a member of the following associations: Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA) Bar European Group (BEG) Compulsory Purchase Association (CPA) National Infrastructure Planning Association (NIPA) Planning and Environmental Bar Association (PEBA) UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) Publications Environmental Civil Sanctions - Taking Stock, UKELA E-Law, September/October 2015 (with Jeremy Phillips and John Jolliffe) Appropriation as a defence to town and village green registration, LexisNexis PSL, October 2015 The Immigration Bill 2015-2016 - illegal workers and licensed premises, Journal of Licensing, Issue 14, March 2016 Book Review: Off Limits, Journal of Licensing, Issue 15, July 2016 Illegal workers and licensed premises: the latest update, Journal of Licensing, Issue 16, November 2016 Housing Delivery and Development Plans across the United Kingdom: England and the Framework; Wales and PPW; Scotland and SPP2; Northern Ireland and SPPS, Journal of Planning and Environmental Law (2017, 2, 146) Caroline regularly speaks at seminars and training sessions both in Chambers and elsewhere.
Background and Interests Caroline was born and brought up in Glasgow. She spends most of her holidays in Scotland, where she enjoys walking in Loch Lomond and around St Andrews and the East Neuk of Fife, and climbing the odd Munro. Caroline's other main interests are modern languages, art and architecture, and theatre. She is also an avid reader, mainly of modern and contemporary fiction. Caroline is a school governor at Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form College.