‘A judicial review challenge of Lambeth Council’s planning approval of a plan that would demolish part of a 1970s estate will be heard in November, making it the fourth judicial review application concerning the estate in seven years.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th August 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A High Court judge recently dismissed a judicial review challenge over a council’s decision to issue a Breach of Condition Notice. Roderick Morton explains why.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th August 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Campaigners have begun a legal challenge against the government’s decision to give the Sizewell C nuclear power station the go-ahead amid warnings that UK nuclear plants will be on the frontline of climate breakdown.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Plans to build 475 houses in Worthing have been overturned by a High Court judge.’
BBC News, 1st August 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A judicial review application by Buckinghamshire Council contesting a decision by the Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State for Levelling up, Housing and Communities to approve lorry routes for the construction of High Speed 2 has been refused by the High Court.’
Local Government Lawyer, 26th July 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A decision by Leeds City Council to grant itself outline planning permission to build 61 affordable dwellings on a longstanding sports field was unlawful, a High Court judge has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th July 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In this post, Sam Porter, an Associate in the Planning team at CMS, previews the upcoming Supreme Court decision in the case of Hillside Parks Limited v Snowdonia National Park Authority UKSC 2020/0211. The case was heard on 4 July 2022.’
UKSC Blog, 7th July 2022
Source: ukscblog.com
‘The Supreme Court will next week (12 July) consider whether the principle enunciated by the Court of Appeal that a planning condition could not lawfully require the developer to dedicate land for public purposes without the payment of compensation, is correct in law.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th July 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A Wiltshire man has been ordered to pay more than £26,000 after Wiltshire Council prosecuted him for non-compliance with planning enforcement notices at a site in Bromham.’
Local Government Lawyer, 29th June 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A judicial review challenging Wiltshire Council’s decision-making in relation to a major new distributor road serving a large-scale development project, the Future Chippenham programme, has been dismissed by a High Court judge.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st June 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
The High Court has quashed Bristol City Council’s grant of planning permission for a 62-home development on a former zoo car park, following a judicial review claim that argued the local authority based its decision on a flawed planning officer’s report.
Local Government Lawyer, 21st June 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The government’s road agency will be forced to remove hundreds of tonnes of concrete it used to bury a Victorian bridge arch despite offering a £450,000 sweetener to allow the controversial scheme to stay. Eden district council’s planning committee resisted the offer by unanimously deciding to refuse National Highways (NH) retrospective planning permission for a crude infilling project at Great Musgrave, Cumbria, that was widely condemned as “cultural vandalism”.’
The Guardian, 16th June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Row over Greenfields recreation ground could be a test case on selling English public land for housing.’
The Guardian, 5th June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A High Court judge has dismissed a judicial review challenge of BCP Council’s decision to grant full planning permission for a substantial mixed use development in Bournemouth.’
Local Government Lawyer, 23rd May 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Claimant was the owner and/or estate manager of land known as the Gilbert Estate. The Defendants were both freehold owners of land subject to restrictive covenants in favour of land owned by the Claimant. The relevant covenant prohibited any construction without a written licence, “such licence not to be unreasonably withheld.”’
Gatehouse Chambers, 11th May 2022
Source: gatehouselaw.co.uk
‘A landlord in London who “illegally squashed” seven flats into a development that only had planning permission for six, has been ordered to pay £230,000 under a confiscation order.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th May 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Bob Pritchard picks out key elements of the explanatory notes to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to see what changes are in store for the planning system.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th May 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In the third and final blog in our series looking at common queries on the roll out of EV infrastructure (see our previous blogs on progress and challenges and landlord and tenant issues) we focus on construction, planning and tax aspects.’
Practical Law: Construction Blog, 11th May 2022
‘A judicial review application has been made against Powys County Council over its decision to grant planning permission for the expansion of a poultry farm that is in the catchment area of a Special Area of Conservation.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th May 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A legal requirement that new houses do not pollute nearby wetlands, rivers and nature reserves has halted development across a swath of England.’
The Guardian, 2nd May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
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