John Pugh-Smith’s principal practice area revolves around  planning and compensation matters with related environmental, real estate, and local government work. He is also an experienced alternative dispute resolver  and receives regular appointments either as an arbitrator or an independent expert as well as a mediator. (For John’s specialist mediator profile, please click here). As an active promoter of conflict resolution in the public sector he is one of the specialist advisers to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alternative Dispute Resolution, and,  the co-ordinator of the current MHCLG/PINS Mediation Pathfinder Initiative. He is a member of the RICS President’s Panel and also a  Design Council Expert, serving on the Highways England Design Review Panel. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.