Robbie Owen

Board Member
Partner and Head of Major Projects, Bircham Dyson Bell LLP

Robbie is a planning and infrastructure lawyer at Bircham Dyson Bell. He has over 20 years experience of successfully promoting and opposing a wide range of infrastructure and other major projects, advising both the public and private sector.

Bircham Dyson Bell have renowned and longstanding experience of the current planning regimes for infrastructure and other major projects across many sectors, e.g. aviation, energy generation and transmission, ports, rail, roads, urban transit and water, advising both promoters and objectors. They consistently have one of the largest planning law teams in the UK and are supported by an in-house public affairs and communications consultancy.

Since 2007 Robbie has been a member of the Planning Sounding Board, set up by the Cabinet Office and now run by CLG to give advice and views in relation to the May 2007 planning white paper and the subsequent Planning Bill and Planning Act 2008. Robbie also co-edits Butterworths Planning Law: A Practical Guide to National Infrastructure Projects, written by Bircham Dyson Bell and first published in July 2009.