‘In Finch the Court of Appeal has declined to define significant indirect effects for environmental impact assessment (EIA). Barristers at Cornerstone Barristers consider the ruling.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th March 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A parish council recently won an important victory over whether a neighbourhood plan prevails over draft Local Plan allocation. Meyric Lewis and Kate Olley examine the ruling.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th March 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A Scottish law firm, which has no offices south of the border, has failed in a jurisdiction challenge to halt a negligence claim over advice a solicitor gave over a Cornish wind farm project.’
Legal Futures, 4th March 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Applications for planning permission for projects in England and Wales will need to provide “utmost clarity” on their potential indirect environmental impacts in the wake of a new court judgment.’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st March 2022
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Everyone in the UK should be legally entitled to equal access to nature, wildlife campaigners will tell the government.’
The Guardian, 21st February 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The High Court has ruled against claimants in three cases involving how widely a local authority can consider planning matters when dealing with a request for prior approval under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th February 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A Labour councillor in Hartlepool has successfully defended an election petition brought by a defeated opponent who said he had been the victim of a false claim.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd February 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Campaigners have secured permission for a judicial review challenge over Tower Hamlets Council’s grant of planning permission for a new office building on Brick Lane.’
Local Government Lawyer, 31st January 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court has ruled that a council’s refusal to list local sports field as an asset of community value was unlawful. Jenny Wigley QC analyses the judgment’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th January 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In R (TV Harrison CIC) v Leeds City Council (2022) EWHC 130 (Admin) the claimant community interest company challenged the decision of the City Council to refuse to include the claimant’s Land in the list of Land in its area that is of community value that is maintained under Section 87(1) of the Localism Act 2011. The Land is described as a longstanding sports field and has recently been restored. However, the City Council seeks to proceed with a housing development. “Land of community value” is defined by Section 88 of the Act. Section 88(1)(b) is concerned with future use.’
Local Government Law, 25th January 2022
Source: local-government-law.11kbw.com
‘In a guest post, Trevor Cooper, of the Historic Religious Buildings Alliance, looks at the issues surrounding “contested heritage”.’
Law & Religion UK, 21st January 2022
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘It is not the role of the courts to “re-write a bad bargain” between commercial parties, an English judge has said, in a dispute over the wording of an option agreement.’
OUT-LAW.com, 21st January 2022
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The High Court has handed down judgment in a “significant” planning case considering the scope of a planning enforcement order where there is a mixed use, writes Leon Glenister.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st January 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Ashchurch Rural Parish Council has lost a judicial review challenge it brought over construction of a bridge to access large planned housing developments.’
Local Government Lawyer, 13th January 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £64,000 for breaching a planning enforcement notice served on a property in Barking being used illegally as a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO).’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th January 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court has given Swindon Borough Council permission to appeal in a case about whether a planning condition can require the dedication of a highway.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th January 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A planned new restaurant for TV personality Jeremy Clarkson’s Oxfordshire farm has been refused permission.’
BBC News, 10th January 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A homeowner has been ordered to pay £80,000 for using a deadly herbicide to poison a protected tree that was overlooking his home.’
The Independent, 17th December 2021
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Chelmsford City Council’s planning committee did not commit itself to give consent for a housing development when it indicated support but deferred its decision, the High Court has found.’
Local Government Lawyer, 9th December 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Isle of Wight Council’s decision that a privately owned way in Ryde was not a “road” for the purposes of the Traffic Regulation Act 1984 has been overturned, following a High Court legal challenge.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th December 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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