‘Lancashire residents fighting to block a fracking site have said they are “truly dismayed” after losing a high court legal challenge.’
The Guardian, 12th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Northumberland Council has seen its grant of planning permission for a five-bed home quashed by the High Court for a third time.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th April 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Licensing laws in England and Wales should be changed to give local planning authorities responsibility for determining the rights of businesses to sell alcohol on their premises, according to a House of Lords committee.’
OUT-LAW.com, 4th April 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A Planning Court judge has dismissed three judicial review challenges to Newcastle City Council’s adoption of a masterplan for a major development and two subsequent grants of planning permission.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd April 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The London Borough of Ealing has successfully defended its decision-making in the latest round of litigation over the proposed siting of training facilities for football club Queen’s Park Rangers on metropolitan open land (MOL).’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th March 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘London council is to be allowed to bury people in land on top of war graves after a Church of England court gave it permission.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th March 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Developers will welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to reduce the rateable value of unoccupied office space undergoing substantial redevelopment works, according to property law experts at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com.’
OUT-LAW.com, 6th March 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Villagers have defeated Historic England following a row about honouring their war dead, as a Church judge ruled they can use a wreath holder to display poppies all year round.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th March 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Courts in England and Wales have new powers to change the maximum cost liabilities that those challenging environmental decisions of public bodies’ through judicial review could be exposed to under new rules that are now in force.’
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd March 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘There is, I am glad to say, an insistence these days in the Court of Appeal that the giving of proper reasons is a necessary part of what can be expected of a planning authority when it grants permission: see my post here for a case last year.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st February 2017
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The appeal in Oakley v South Cambridgeshire District Council (2017) EWCA Civ 71 raised the issue whether, in the particular circumstances of the case, the Planning Committee of the South Cambridgeshire District Council ought to have given reasons for granting planning permission for the development by Cambridge City Football Club, a semi-professional club, of a football stadium capable of seating three thousand people. The proposed construction is in the outskirts of Sawston in Cambridgeshire, on land which is part of the Green Belt. The application for planning permission was not only for the erection of the ground, together with associated training and parking facilities, but also for the creation of a partially floodlit recreational ground which would be gifted to the Sawston Parish Council for community use.’
Local Government Law, 17th February 2017
‘The Court of Appeal has quashed a council’s grant of planning permission for a new football stadium over the failure of its planning committee to give reasons for its decision.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th February 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Government is to outline a series of tweaks to planning laws it says will help solve the housing shortage.’
The Independent, 7th February 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has rejected a judicial review challenge brought by four local authorities over the Transport Secretary’s decision to back a third runway at Heathrow Airport.’
Local Government Lawyer, 30th January 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Cornwall Council has successfully defended a High Court challenge to its decision not to take enforcement action in respect of unauthorised development at a quarry in the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.’
Local Government Lawyer, 27th January 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘English Heritage is facing a High Court battle over plans to dig underneath a medieval tower to add a visitor centre.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th January 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘In November 2016, the Government responded in rather disappointing terms (here) to a consultation about amending its costs rules in civil cases to reflect the requirements of the Aarhus Convention.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th January 2017
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘An increasing number of neighbourhood plans will fail the independent examination stage in 2017, while those that do proceed to referendum could face additional legal challenges, an expert has predicted.’
OUT-LAW.com, 5th January 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Anti-fracking campaigners have lost their legal challenge to a decision to allow fracking to take place in North Yorkshire.’
BBC News, 20th December 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘East Bergholt Parish Council has won a case against Babergh District Council that it said would affect two more planning applications in the district and potentially other rural areas.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th December 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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