Expertise

These days I am preoccupied with pro bono work for neighbouring parishes, and I have been successful in the four cases:

  • Sedlescombe 2020 (vs GPL activity centre in the village) WON
  • Catsfield 2024 (vs Greystoke, 122 lodges) WON
  • Crowhurst 2025 (for Community Solar Farm) WON
  • Motions for the Tree and for Rother Rivers, APPROVED by Rother via Cllr McLaren and Cllr Burton on 18 Sept 2025
  • The Rights approved for the 1066 Yew Tree are believed to the FIRST in the UK for a tree.

           Dr John Feltwell, Dip EC Law

During my working life I had experience with the following

  • Airport mitigation (Terminal 5 Heathrow)
  • Anaerobic digesters (AD)
  • Biodiversity reports
  • Brownfield site development
  • Code for Sustainable Homes (CfSH) reports
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Conservation in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB’s)
  • Conservation in Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI’s)
  • Conservation in a Ramsar site
  • Countryside issues – amenities
  • Ecological Impact Assessments (EIAs) and general surveys
  • Environmental trouble shooting
  • Forensic / Retrospective Ecology
  • Greenfield development
  • Habitat surveys, badger reports
  • Landscape and the Law
  • NPPF interpretation
  • Negotiating with statutory bodies
  • Public Inquiry Work
  • Proofs of Evidence
  • Restoration ecology
  • Solar farms
  • Wind Turbines
  • UK protected species mitigation
  • UK and EU wildlife law issues