Tobias Paul

Senior Associate

Tobias is a specialist planning solicitor qualified in both England and Scotland. He has broad experience across the full range of development sectors and scales: from householder extensions and garden sheds to major housing and commercial schemes to nationally significant nuclear power stations and renewable energy installations.

Tobias has acted for the promoters of some of the UK’s most high profile transport, energy and natural resources projects, building on his particular niche expertise in highways and street works, ecclesiastical land and burial grounds, civil aviation and international law.

Recent work

Acting for development consent order (DCO) applicants and prospective applicants for over ten nationally significant solar, offshore wind, battery storage, hydrogen and water projects across England, Wales and Scotland, including Island Green Power, Thistle Wind Partners, BayWa r.e., BP, Anglian Water and the Environment Agency.
Advising Transport for London, London Borough of Croydon, National Highways, Great British Energy – Nuclear, enfinium, Cory and EDF Renewables on the implementation and variation of DCO powers relating to waste processing, temporary possession of land, highway stopping up, public rights of way and maintenance.
Advising the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust, Mersey Gateway Crossings Board and London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham on the implementation, revision and enforcement of bridge tolls and charges to secure sustainable long-term maintenance funding, including safeguarding nationally and internationally significant listed buildings.
Leading on Schedule 17 planning applications and appeals for High Speed 2, including conduct of subsequent litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal, with a 100% record of success.
Advising AGS Airports, Manchester Airport Group and RWE in relation to civil aviation safeguarding.

Tobias is a member of the Law Society of Scotland’s environmental law, planning and rural affairs committees, is the sole legal advisor to the Scottish Government’s contaminated land advisory group and is also admitted as a notary public.