Trevor has in excess of 25 years’ experience specialising in Planning and Local Government work and for many years he has practised exclusively in the areas of planning, highways, public rights of way and certain issues relating to town and village green matters. Trevor practises in most aspects of town and country planning and within the field of highway law he has particular interest in matters concerning public rights of way. Trevor is regularly instructed in judicial review proceedings and statutory appeals to the High Court within the areas of his practice.

Trevor is a former lecturer in law and has been in practice at the Bar on the south coast since 1991. He has organised and given seminars and provides training on a wide range of planning and highway law topics for local authority officers and members. In addition Trevor regularly delivers papers at various conferences including those provided by Central Law Training.

Trevor has a keen interest in all aspects of highways matters and especially public rights of way. Within this area, he has vast experience of acting for Order Making Authorities, order supporters and objectors in respect of the proposed changes to the Definitive Map and Statement and he has appeared in numerous rights of way inquiries. Inquiry work has included proposed orders to upgrade and add public rights of way of all types, based upon claims of both statutory and common law deemed dedication whether founded on detailed historic documentary evidence and/or user evidence. In addition he has dealt with applications to stop up and divert rights of way, both by the Inquiry and the Magistrates’ Court procedures. These proceedings have raised both the usual issues, as well as sometimes, more unusual issues, such as the impact of War Time closures on the continuity of user evidence, routes crossing watercourses and coastal routes, as well as issues of loss of rights of way by annihilation of the subject matter.
Trevor also deals with issues of obstructions and duties and responsibilities under the Highways Act and other legislation and he appeared on behalf of the highway authority in the leading case of Herrick v Kidner and Somerset County Council [2010] EWHC 269 (Admin) as to the interpretation of section 130A-D of the Highways Act 1980.
In addition, Trevor has also appeared in a number of inquiries into Traffic Regulation Orders on a wide range of issues including, more recently, the Stonehenge inquiries.