Harry is incredibly clear and very quickly able to get his point across. It is immediately obvious that he has prepared in depth for conferences and knows the material relevant to his instruction inside out.”

The Legal 500 2024, Planning and Environment

Harry acts for private and public sector clients in a broad range of cases in the environment and local government fields. These include landowners, operators, councils and regulators, and he has appeared before a variety of tribunals, including inquiries, hearings, various categories of appeal, and in the civil and criminal courts.

His experience includes statutory nuisance, wind and other renewable energy projects, environmental permitting, riparian duties, water abstraction, water pollution, drainage, waste collection and disposal, town and village greens, highways, footpaths and other rights of way, and various categories of licensing cases.

Harry is the author of a substantial number of articles on planning and environment law, and regularly speaks at seminars and webinars. Recent examples include the following:

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Harry is forensic in his approach to analysing the strengths of a case. He has a commercial outlook and is acutely aware of client objectives. He is personable and a pleasure to work with, yet is capable of taking a tough stand when required.”

Legal 500, 2023

Increasingly winning instructions from high-profile clients in the UK and internationally [ … ] Spurr is ‘personable, calming and not afraid to put forward opposing points of view in the hope it will lead to progress’ .”

Legal 500 2023, Mediators

Very commercial, thorough and approachable.”

Legal 500, 2022

  • Qualifications & awards:

    • Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)
    • Inns of Court School of Law
    • Exeter University

  • Professional memberships:

    • Planning and Environmental Bar Association (PEBA)
    • UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)
    • Civil Mediation Council (CMC)
    • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

  • Harry Spurr is regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and holds a current practising certificate. If you are not satisfied with the service provided, please read here.