Freddie accepts instructions in all areas of Town and Country Planning, including housing, retail, highways, enforcement and minerals. Freddie has advisory experience in all of these areas, and appears in planning inquiries, enforcement inquiries, and enforcement prosecutions and appeals.

Freddie is regularly instructed to draft papers in statutory challenges and Judicial Review proceedings in the High Court. Freddie has experience appearing in the High Court and Court of Appeal on planning matters.

He accepts instructions in the field of Highways Law, including advisory work and appearances at public path and definitive map modification order inquiries.

Freddie has experience in all aspects of Licensing law, including Premises licensing, Gambling and S.E.V licensing. Freddie is adept at advising local authorities having undertaken a secondment to Birmingham City Council’s legal services Licensing team. Freddie has advised local authorities at committee hearing and also appears on behalf of Premises owners and objectors at committee hearings, reviews and appeals concerning applications made under the Licensing Act, and for S.E.V licences.

Freddie appears in taxi licensing cases both for local authorities and appellants involving both hackney carriage and private hire vehicles.  He has advised on the formulation and implementation of local authority taxi licensing policy.