Local Plans System Fails Soundness Test
A vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping: Why don’t we test the whole local plans system against the soundness requirement in paragraph 35 of the National Planning Policy Frame…
Does The Government Have An Environmental Strategy Or Is It More Of A Tactic?
First, a scary graph: (Source: BBC news piece, Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet) The extent of the climate crisis is becoming plainer by the month. The UN Secretary G…
M&S Mess
I never thought I would live to see a chief executive of Marks and Spencer plc (Marks and Spencer plc!) issue a statement such as this: “”After a two-year process where our proposals were sup…
Get With The Project
The question as to “what is the project?” for the purposes of environmental impact assessment has been arising a lot since R (Ashchurch Rural Parish Council) v Tewkesbury Borough Council (Cou…
Euston We Have A Problem
I have been commuting into Euston station for over twenty years, experiencing increasing frustration: at the past we have lost; the future that we are losing, and at the tatty and graceless perma-t…
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CG Fry: AA Post PP
CG Fry v Secretary of State (Sir Ross Cranston, 30 June 2023) is a difficult case with a perhaps unsurprising answer, although one that is disappointing to many. I’ve often written about the ongoin…
What Should We Call The Planning Version Of Trussenomics? And A Pox On The PEx PAX
Is the planning system now in a holding pattern until the general election? It certainly feels that way. The consultation announced in December 2022 over proposed changes to the NPPF (see my 22 Dec…
What Does A Planning Lawyer Do?
Fair question. Particularly at this festive time of year for planning lawyers given the annual publication yesterday by Planning magazine of its Planning Law Survey (16 June 2023, subscription only…
All Tomorrow’s (Section 106) Parties
This post was prompted by the recent High Court judgment in Link Park Heathrow LLP v Secretary of State (Waksman J, 10 May 2023). If I had a penny for every time I’ve been asked whether all those w…
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