‘The Government must make good on its commitment to health in all policies by enshrining health as a material consideration in planning and licensing law, MPs have said.’
Local Government Lawyer, 1st September 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A neighbourhood plan referendum has been postponed after an application for its judicial review was lodged.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th August 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A council must pay a local hotel owner £55,000 in costs after losing a judicial review over construction of a hydro-electric station.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th August 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A High Court Judge has rejected a judicial review challenge to overturn the proposal for a cruise liner terminal at Enderby Wharf, London.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th August 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Local Government Ombudsman has issued a further report against Durham County Council in relation to a planning complaint involving a predecessor authority.’
Local Government Lawyer, 26th July 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A coalition of campaigning groups led by Friends of the Earth has filed an application for judicial review of North Yorkshire County Council’s recent decision to grant planning permission to a shale gas fracking project.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th July 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘An appeal against the grant of planning permission to a solar farm in Wiltshire “does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance”, and may not be appealed to the Supreme Court.’
OUT-LAW.com, 13th July 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court’s decision to quash a compulsory purchase order (CPO) for the unused and vacant Orchard Wharf.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th July 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The UK government has extended its scrutiny of planning appeals involving housing development in neighbourhood planning areas, but the thresholds for the recovery of such appeals have been altered.’
OUT-LAW.com, 13th July 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Anti-fracking campaigners have applied for judicial review of a council’s decision to allow use of the gas extraction technique in North Yorkshire.’
The Guardian, 7th July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A farmer who built a mock Tudor castle without planning consent and hid it behind hay bales says he has no regrets after following orders to demolish it.’
BBC News, 30th June 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (Cooper) v Ashford Borough Council: [2016] EWHC 1525 (Admin)
‘The claimant sought judicial review of the grant of planning permission by the local planning authority for four gipsy pitches and associated development at a site, on the ground, inter alia, that the local authority had erred in failing to have regard to a material consideration, namely that the grant of permission would set a precedent for the development of further gipsy and traveller sites causing cumulative harm to the semi-natural ancient woodland in the area.’
WLR Daily, 24th June 2016
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A Deputy High Court judge has quashed a council’s grant of planning permission for a change of use of land from grazing to residential for a gypsy caravan and a touring caravan.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd June 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A local planning authority in England was not entitled to take into account the fact that a portion of the profits from a new wind turbine would be donated to local good causes when deciding whether to grant planning permission, the High Court has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th June 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A Local Government Ombudsman investigation has found that the London Borough of Hackney had a backlog of 1,500 planning enforcement cases, some of them 15 years old.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th June 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘London’s longest running mega-basement dispute could last a decade in a row over a £28 million pound Kensington property formerly owned by a fraudster.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th June 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A county council has failed in a High Court challenge to an inspector’s decision to register part of land near a primary school as a village green.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th June 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘“Fracking”, or rather hydraulic fracturing is a subject that fosters great passion and concern in many. The word “frak” was recently used as an expletive in a remake of a 1970’s television classic, to replace another well known Anglo-Saxon curse, and in Swedish fräck means “audacious”, “shameless” or “bold”.’
The 36 Group, April 2016
Source: www.36group.co.uk
‘The High Court has rejected Spitalfields Historic Trust Ltd’s judicial review claim against a planning permission decision by previous London mayor Boris Johnson.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th May 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
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