HS2 campaigners lose Court of Appeal challenge – BBC News
‘Campaigners have lost their latest legal challenge to the first phase of the proposed HS2 high-speed rail line.’
BBC News, 9th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: planning
Rights to light – making the law more transparent – Law Commission
‘In a report published today, the Law Commission is recommending reforms to the law governing rights to light that will strike a balance between the interests of landowners and the law’s recognition of the need for appropriate development.’
Law Commission, 4th December 2014
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
Regina (Joicey) v Northumberland County Council – WLR Daily
Regina (Joicey) v Northumberland County Council [2014] EWHC 3657 (Admin); [2014] WLR (D) 506
‘As in failure to take account of relevant material consideration cases, so also in a case involving a breach of statutory duty to disclose information, relief would be granted unless the decision-maker could demonstrate that the decision in question would inevitably have been the same had the decision-maker acted as he was required to do.’
WLR Daily, 7th November 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Why domestic Aarhus rules are not wide enough to comply with the Convention – UK Human Rights Blog
‘Back to Aarhus and the constant problem we have in the UK making sure that the cost of planning and environmental litigation is not prohibitively expensive.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 1st December 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
High Court judge rejects challenge to 400-home planning consent, despite planning officer’s mistaken advice – OUT-LAW.com
‘A High Court judge has refused to quash a decision to grant planning consent for 400 homes within the Surrey countryside, after deciding that a council was not misled by a planning officer’s mistaken advice.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th November 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Public access to local authority information: transparency with teeth – Panopticon
‘The Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations are the dominant statutory regimes for public transparency, but they are of course not the only ones. A good example is the regime under the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), particularly sections 100A-K. Those provisions govern public access to local authority meetings, as well as the public availability of minutes, reports, background documents and so on for such meetings, subject to provisions for exempt information (Schedule 12A). A recent judgment of the Admin Court (Cranston J) in a planning matter, Joicey v Northumberland County Council [2014] EWHC 3657 (Admin) illustrates the importance of compliance with that regime for public access to information.’
Panopticon, 20th November 2014
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
High Court judge dismisses challenge to Ealing shopping centre planning permission – OUT-LAW.com
‘A High Court judge has dismissed a challenge to Ealing Council’s approval of plans to redevelop the Oaks Shopping Centre in west London, after disagreeing with claims that the substitution of a councillor on the Council’s planning committee was unlawful.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th November 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Private Law Remedies in Environmental Law – Mouse or Lion? – Thirty Nine Essex Street
‘With statutory regulation covering an ever increasing area in Environmental Law, the question arises as to whether private law remedies have a meaningful role to play in that arena?’
Full story (PDF)
Thirty Nine Essex Street, September 2014
Source: www.39essex.com
Love Thy Neighbour – An update on Neighbourhood plans – No. 5 Chambers
‘Chris Young & James Corbet Burcher recently gave a talk titled ‘Love Thy Neighbour: An update on Neighbourhood plans’ at the No5 Chambers Annual Planning Review in London.’
No. 5 Chambers, 16th October 2014
Source: www.no5.com
Of cricket balls and Velux windows – a victory for Lord Denning and the common law right to hit a good six – Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘Flying cricket balls and noisy motorbikes have a long history of testing the legal balance between the public interest in sport and the private interest in the peaceful enjoyment of land or the avoidance of injury.’
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 13th November 2014
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
Landlord ordered to pay £280k after breaching enforcement notices on flats – Local Government Lawyer
‘A landlord who built an outbuilding and converted it into six small flats without planning permission has been ordered to pay more than £280,000.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th November 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Wind turbines, noise and public information – UK Human Rights Blog
‘An interesting decision about a Council not supplying some key information about a wind turbine project to the public until very late in the day. Can an objector apply to set the grant of permission aside? Answer: yes, unless the Council can show that it would have inevitably have come to the same conclusion, even if the information had been made public earlier.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th November 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Southwark to bring judicial review over plans for ‘super-sewer’ for London – Local Government Lawyer
‘Southwark Council has applied to the High Court to bring judicial review proceedings over ministers’ approval of plans for the so-called ‘super-sewer’ in London.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd November 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Redhill Aerodrome Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and others – WLR Daily
‘The phrase “any other harm” in paragraph 88 of the National Planning Policy Framework did not mean only harm to the Green Belt, but included any other harm that was relevant for planning purposes. If a planning proposal was not in accordance with the policies in the development plan for the protection of the countryside, the planning permission should be refused having regard to the planning policy framework as a whole.’
WLR Daily, 24th October 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Redhill Aerodrome Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and others – WLR Daily
‘The phrase “any other harm” in paragraph 88 of the National Planning Policy Framework (“NPPF”) meant only harm to the Green Belt.’
WLR Daily, 18th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Government defends JR reforms, attacks impact of challenges on development – Local Government Lawyer
‘The Government has defended its reforms to judicial review, saying it is “particularly keen to reduce the extent to which legal challenge unduly hinders economic development and regeneration”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 5th September 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Regina v Ali (Salah) – WLR Daily
Regina v Ali (Salah) [2014] EWCA Crim 1658; [2014] WLR (D) 366
‘It was permissible for the statutory assumptions in section 10 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to be applied in a case where a defendant was either voluntarily or involuntarily absent through illness.’
WLR Daily, 31st August 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Planning inspector dismisses developer’s appeal against affordable housing requirement – OUT-LAW.com
‘A planning inspector has dismissed a developer’s appeal to have the affordable housing requirement removed from a planning obligation, under a procedure introduced by the Growth and Infrastructure Act.’
Full story
OUT-LAW.com, 31st July 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Developer seeks judicial review in relation to Rutland neighbourhood plan – OUT-LAW.com
‘Developer Larkfleet Homes has applied for judicial review in relation to the neighbourhood plan for a Rutland parish, according to a report in Planning Magazine.’
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd July 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
