“Planners have been told to start approving developments on the basis of the Coalition’s controversial new planning guidelines, despite ministers offering to reword the legislation before it comes into force.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government is seeking advice from the public on which pieces of regulation could be made more transparent.”
The Guardian, 2nd September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government must suspend the ‘immature and unwise’ eviction of 400 Travellers from Essex green belt and seek a peaceful solution, the UN and a European human rights group said.”
The Guardian, 2nd September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A severely ill traveller living on an illegal site in Essex is going to the High Court to try to stop a council evicting her and other residents.”
BBC News, 31st August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government has amended the Localism Bill, following Law Society warnings that a certain provision could have caused uncertainty in the property market.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 11th August 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Coalition is proposing radical changes to the planning laws that critics fear will make it easier for large scale developments to be pushed through.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“We have published the draft National Planning Policy Framework for consultation. This is a key part of our reforms to make the planning system less complex and more accessible, and to promote sustainable growth. We are keen to hear views from all interested parties on the draft and how it might be improved.”
Communities and Local Government, 25th July 2011
Source: www.communities.gov.uk
“The biggest shake up in the planning system for 50 years will allow sprawling out of town developments on the green belt, campaigners have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Planning permission review announced over Bristol store at centre of rioting.”
The Guardian, 15th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The fact that the government was going ahead with the abolition of regional planning strategies in England was a legitimate material consideration for those determining planning applications and appeals even though the existing statutory framework required that each region should have a regional strategy.”
WLR Daily, 27th May 2011
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Avon Estates Ltd v Welsh Ministers and another [2011] EWCA Civ 55; [2011] WLR (D) 168
“Conditions attached to planning permission granted for a limited period could not be enforced against the landowner when the permissions had become spent and the planning authority had failed to enforce the removal of the building or the cessation of the permitted use so that the buildings became immune from enforcement action.”
WLR Daily, 16th May 2011
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“The owners of a Ceredigion holiday park have won a court ruling over the right to use their 42 chalets all year round.”
BBC News, 16th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“People living in parts of England will be able to decide where new houses, shops and businesses should go in their neighbourhood, under a localism trial.”
BBC News, 2nd April 2011
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“Demolition works were capable of constituting a project for the purposes of article 1(2) of Council Directive 85/337/EEC on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment.”
WLR Daily, 25th March 2011
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“Although the court had a wide discretion to grant declaratory relief in diverse circumstances in both public and private law proceedings, where a party who was not a party to the contract brought private proceedings seeking declaratory relief to enforce a public authority’s planning obligation the court would not lend its assistance.”
WLR Daily, 17th March 2011
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“Measures to make it easier for firms in England to convert commercial property into private dwellings are to be announced by the government in the Budget, the BBC has learned.”
BBC News, 19th March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A stated intention by the Government to abolish regional strategies and to promote legislation for that purpose was capable in law of constituting, for the purposes of section 70(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, a ‘material consideration’ to which planning authorities could have taken regard in making determinations of applications for planning permission. The Secretary of State’s announced intention to abolish regional strategies did not compromise the duty of local planning authorities under section 19 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended) to have regard to regional strategies when preparing a development plan or any other local development document.”
WLR Daily, 8th February 2011
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“A High Court bid to block plans for a hotel and flats on a derelict site on the opposite side of the Thames from Hampton Court Palace has failed.”
BBC News, 31st January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Although the common way of identifying a building was by its name and address, nothing in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 precluded the list of listed buildings from using other sorts of identifying detail, such as verbal descriptions, map references, post-codes, explanatory notes, or photographs.”
WLR Daily, 26th January 2011
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Regina (Morge) v Hampshire County Council [2011] UKSC; [2011] WLR (D) 5
“A local planning authority, when considering an application for planning permission for a development which was alleged to affect the habitat of a protected species, was entitled to place reliance on the fact that Natural England, the body responsible for enforcing the Council Directive prohibiting the disturbance of protected species, had withdrawn its initial objection to the application. When Natural England had expressed its satisfaction that development would be compliant with the Directive, the planning authority was entitled to presume that that was so.”
WLR Daily, 19th January 2011
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