“A new law will make it harder for residents to use town and village green (TVG) laws to oppose the development of land, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The existence in English law of a ten year period after which a breach of planning control was no longer actionable was not incompatible with the terms of Council Directive 85/337/EEC (the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive).”
WLR Daily, 19th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A High Court judge has opened the way for a City trader to build an underground
swimming pool at his London home, despite objections from a string of
high-profile neighbours, including Sir Victor Blank, the former banker, and
Richard Madeley, the television presenter.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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Supreme Court, 24th April 2013
“The culture of using meritless judicial review applications to delay immigration decisions and hold up development will be attacked by new controls announced today by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.”
Ministry of Justice, 23rd April 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
“Ministers are to unveil controls aimed at tackling judicial reviews in English courts that hold up building projects and delay immigration decisions.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A council could not amend its wind turbine planning policy to ensure a larger ‘buffer zone’ between turbines and residential properties than that already set out in its local plan, the High Court has ruled.17 Apr 2013.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Wind energy developers are celebrating today after the high court ruled that Milton Keynes Borough Council’s attempts to impose a ‘buffer zone’ for new wind farm projects were unlawful.”
The Guardian, 15th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“As the judge explicitly recognised, this case raised the clash of two principles – how to resolve the policy-driven field of planning with the rights of family under Article 8 ECHR and of the child under Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Councils will be given stronger powers to stop illegal Travellers’ sites being set up, communities and local government secretary Eric Pickles has announced.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A command paper setting out the Government’s proposed strategy for the development of a high speed rail network followed after consultation by an announcement of decisions and next steps was not an administrative provision requiring a plan or programme necessitating an environmental assessment under the terms of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive 2001/42/EC.”
WLR Daily, 15th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Villagers who have spent almost three years blockading an illegal gipsy camp
declared victory after a High Court judge ordered the travellers to leave.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Section 61G(5) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as inserted, required a local planning authority, in determining an application for a neighbourhood area, to consider whether the area proposed was appropriate, after considering the specific factual and policy matrix that existed in an individual case.”
WLR Daily, 13th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Leading heritage organisations have won a high court battle against plans for a windfarm they warn will result in substantial harm to a heritage area ‘of national significance.’ English Heritage and the National Trust say the case has national implications. They supported East Northamptonshire district council’s successful legal bid to block proposals submitted by West Coast Energy for four 300 feet (91 metre) turbines on farmland at Barnwell Manor in Sudborough.”
The Guardian, 8th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There have been important pronouncements over the years by the Aarhus Compliance Committee (ACC) about whether the UK planning system complies with the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“When deciding whether an environmental impact assessment (EIA) screening direction by the Secretary of State (SoS) was lawful, the appropriate test to apply is the Wednesbury unreasonableness test, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Localism Act 2011 made significant changes to the planning system, but did not eliminate the role of the Secretary of State in determining planning applications.”
WLR Daily, 20th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Britain’s HS2 high-speed rail line could be delayed for a decade as a unified coalition of Conservative councils, MPs and environmental groups threaten disruptive legal action.”
The Independent, 28th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“In R. (on the application of Coleman) v Barnet LBC [2012] EWHC 3725 (Admin) , the High Court has held that the local authority had discharged its public sector equality duty (under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010) when granting planning permission for the development of a school on land on which a garden centre had been situated.”
Education Law Blog, 15th January 2013
Source: www.education11kbw.com
“A High Court judge has dismissed a challenge to the Secretary of State’s refusal of developer Larkfleet Limited’s plans to build a 1,000-home urban extension to the north of Grantham in South Kesteven.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th December 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
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