legal challenge

Campaigners throw down legal gauntlet on permitted development

26.08.2020

Huw Morris

Health | Housing | legal challenge | mhclg | PDR | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Planning Law | Policy & Politics | Rights: Community Action | UK

Campaigners are threatening legal action against the government unless it suspends new permitted development rights (PDR) that come into force next week.
Legal briefs: Hackney ruling highlights disclosure issues; Fast-track Dublin 15 scheme consent quashed

03.07.2020

Roger Milne

An Bord Pleanala | Climate Change | European Commission | fast-track | hackney | HS2 | Infrastructure - Energy | Infrastructure - Transport | Ireland | legal challenge | Planning Law | UK

A round-up of legal news: 27 June-3 July, 2020
Council challenges inspectorate’s decision for 350 homes

14.06.2018

Laura Edgar

appeal | legal challenge | Planning Law | South Gloucestershire | South West

South Gloucestershire Council has announced that it will challenge a planning inspector’s decision to approve 350 homes in Thornbury.
Appeal: Housing need outweighs settlement hierarchy of challenged core strategy

13.10.2016

Martha Harris

core strategy | five year housing land supply | Housing | legal challenge | North Somerset Council | Planning Law | Policy & Politics | Rural | South West

Permission has been granted for 118 homes, including 35 affordable units, outside of the settlement limits of an ‘infill’ village in North Somerset, after North Somerset Council failed to demonstrate a five-...