David Cooper

David Cooper is one of the UK’s most experienced and successful lawyers, with parallel specialties in planning and white collar crime.

David’s planning clients include a who’s who of high profile planning consents and inquiries, having conducted over 950 inquiries. Clients include ADT; Alton Towers; ARC Properties; Arlington Securities (Birmingham Business Park UP); Arsenal Football Club; Bristol Airport; British Car Auctions; British Aerospace; Burford Holdings; Citibank; Crest Homes; Development Securities; Dwyer; Flairline Properties; Frogmore Estates; Galliard Homes; GRE Properties; Group Lotus; Hanson Properties Ltd; P & O Developments; Pillar Property; Port Ramsgate; Sally UK; Sir Robert McAlpine; Southampton Football Group; Tarmac Properties; Virgin; Lendlease (The Dome); Sellar Properties; Quintain; and Capital & Regional (major inquiries at Oldbury and Aylesbury), and Canada Water, the majority as advocate.

He has also acted on behalf of important buildings in London and the provinces including SAVE Britain's Heritage, the Covent Garden Residents' Association, the Georgian Society and the Victorian Society.

He also now has a major parallel practice specialising in Regulatory and White Collar Crime and Fraud. He is a Member of the Law Society Specialist Planning Panel and Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.