Dr Ashley Bowes specialises in all aspects of the development and use of land, including planning, property, licensing and local government law.

He is a member of the Attorney General's C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, in which capacity he represents the UK Government in his areas of specialism and was  shortlisted by Chambers & Partners as Environment/Planning Junior of the Year 2018.

Ashley is  the General Editor of Sweet & Maxwell's Journal of Planning & Environment Law  and the author of Oxford University Press's textbook, A Practical Approach to Planning Law , aswell as being  a contributor to Butterworths Planning Law Service  and to the Routledge Handbook of Comparative Planning Law.

In 2019, Ashley was co-opted to the Planning & Environment Bar Association Committee.