“Moves to create some 800 permanent sites across England for Traveller families will be announced today in an effort to defuse community tensions with settled residents. Under the £47m initiative, new locations will be found from Cornwallto Co Durham for Travellers, preventing them from having to put their caravans on unauthorised land.”
The Independent, 7th January 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Residents who have been campaigning against a gypsy camp on green belt land in their village of Meriden face being removed from the protest stie for breaking planning laws.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Government has announced new changes to the application procedure for consent regimes that fall outside the planning system, as suggested in a 2009 review of consents in England and Wales.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Government’s flagship Localism Bill was granted royal assent earlier today (15 November).”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A group of villagers who claimed they were testing the government’s commitment to ‘localism’ by challenging a waste company’s right to dump radioactive materials in a nearby landfill site have failed in a high court challenge.”
The Guardian, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Developer Taylor Wimpey has won a High Court planning case against the Secretary of State to build more homes on its greenbelt development in Surrey.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Two developers have been found guilty of damaging trees which were blocking plans for three luxury homes worth £11m in Dorset.”
BBC News, 20th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Dale Farm residents are seeking a last-gasp reprieve from eviction by asking for leave to appeal against a decision last week to allow Basildon council to remove 86 families from the Essex Traveller site.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government is considering implementing a ‘transitional period’ before the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is enacted to allow councils to update their local plans.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Residents of Dale Farm will have to wait until next week to learn whether they have won or lost their high court battle against eviction.”
The Guardian, 6th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“If the High Court allowed residents of the UK’s largest illegal travellers’ site to escape eviction it would ‘send out the wrong signal’ to the nation, a judge was told today. A victory for the travellers of Dale Farm, near Basildon, Essex, ‘would strike to the very principles of the rule of law’, said a barrister representing Basildon Council.”
The Independent, 29th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Egan v Basildon Borough Council [2011] EWHC 2416 (QB); [2011] WLR (D) 280
“The date of construction of unlawfully erected buildings or structures could be critical when enforcement action was proposed pursuant to a notice to rectify breaches of planning control.”
WLR Daily, 26th September 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Travellers fighting to stay on the UK’s biggest illegal site should today discover whether they have won the latest round of a legal battle.”
The Independent, 26th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The residents of Dale Farm are once again facing the prospect of imminent removal from their home as a judge prepares to rule on Friday morning whether the bailiffs can move in and mount one of the largest evictions in British history.”
The Guardian, 23rd September 2011
“The planning minister, Greg Clark, has pledged to make changes to the government’s proposals to radically overhaul England’s planning system after running into opposition from campaigners.”
The Guardian, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Director-general of National Trust Dame Fiona Reynolds on the Coalition’s controversial planning reforms.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A last-ditch bid to halt the clearance of the UK’s largest illegal travellers’ site, at Dale Farm in Essex, has been rejected by an appeal judge.”
BBC News, 16th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Communities would have to pay up to £1,000 to apply to save their green spaces from the developers’ bulldozers under plans to speed up the planning process, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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