Celina Colquhoun specialises in all aspects of planning and environmental law, including in particular highways DCO and CPO matters and also has good experience in licensing. Celina is consistently recognised for by The Legal and in Chambers for Planning. She is also rated by Planning Magazine Legal Survey 2021 amongst the UK’s top planning juniors and was chosen by Planner Magazine as a Women of Influence in March 2022.

She appears extensively as an advocate in public inquiries and hearings as well as in the High Court and Court of Appeal. Celina acts for and advises a very wide range of public bodies and private parties in relation to the to all forms of development from application stage to appeal as well as planning enforcement matters and the promotion of or objection to development related Orders.

In July 2020 Celina was appointed as a member of the six person panel constituting the government’s Independent Review of Administrative Law, along with Vikram Sachdeva QC, and chaired by Lord Faulks which reported in early 2021.

Celina is Co-Vice Chair of the Bar Council’s EU Law Committee and an active member of the Bar Council’s Law Reform Committee.