Victoria Hutton

Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers


Victoria is consistently rated as one of the leading juniors at the planning and environmental bar. She has been shortlisted as planning and environment junior barrister of the year by Chambers and Partners (2021) and was included in the Planner’s Women of Influence list for 2020. Victoria is the co-author of ‘Planning Policy’ (Bloomsbury 2018 with Richard Harwood QC). She has extensive advocacy experience which includes appearing in a number of substantive appeals before the Court of Appeal in her own right. She also appears regularly in the High Court, inquiries, informal hearings and local plan examinations.

Victoria has developed a wide-ranging infrastructure practice. Recent instructions include appearing as part of the team promoting a new nuclear facility through the DCO process, acting on behalf of an airport in its planning application to expand its activities and representing the successful claimant in the Stonehenge Tunnel DCO judicial review.