Welcome to the PEBA website

This website enables you to find the information you require about our Members on line and enables us to keep that information up to date so far as possible. It also provides links to other websites including those of our Members' Chambers. Our handbook which has been published for many years will continue to be available. We also publish a regular newsletter.

The core practice of our members continues to be high quality advocacy and advice in our specialist field of planning and the environment and related public law areas. We believe, on the basis of experience, that these skills can be of critical importance to the interests of our clients.  This belief is supported by the continuing strong demand for our services.  The Association is committed to maintaining the highest standards in every aspect of our professional work.  This includes Wales where we maintain close liaison with the Welsh division of PINS.

Planning law continues to develop. We are currently engaged with the changes to the planning system brought about by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.  We have been in close contact with PINS and other professional bodies as to the basis on which the new procedures are to be implemented. Our clients can look with confidence to members of this Association to be able to advise upon the implications of all such matters.

We have been centrally involved in the development of the new system for the appointment of silks, which this Association strongly supports.  We will continue to monitor its development to ensure that it takes proper account of the interests of our clients and our members.

The Association holds regular seminars on issues of current importance to its field of expertise.  For 2007 our programme includes seminars on the proposed Environmental Tribunal and renewable energy and a workshop with PINS on current procedural and other topics.

The Association strongly supports representation for those unable to afford professional representation and is closely involved with Planning Aid and other Pro Bono schemes.

We continue to liaise with PINS, Government Departments and Agencies and other professional bodies and we respond to consultation on many topics relevant to our specialist fields of practice. The views of this Association continue to play an important role in the modernisation of planning and environmental law, policy and practice.  We are represented on the National Planning Forum and the Bar Council.