Environmental impact assessment
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Retrospective planning permission and environmental impact assessment
Superficially at least, it might appear that the ability to grant retrospective planning permission under section 73A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for a development requiring an…
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Smyth v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Town and country planning Environmental impact assessment
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Smyth v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Town and country planning – Planning permission – Environmental impact assessment – Defendant secretary of state granting planning permission for residential development – Claimant resident seeking order quashing defendant’s decision…
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The term “urban development project” encompasses a wide ambit in the context of the EIA Regulation
In R (on the application of Goodman) v Lewisham London Borough Council [2003] EWCA Civ 140; [2003] 2 PLR 42, the main issue for the Court of Appeal was whether…
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Environmental impact assessment and cumulation with other development
Schedule 3 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011 (“the Regulations”) sets out the applicable selection criteria for determining whether a Schedule 2 development is likely…
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R (on the application of Mouring and another) v West Berkshire District Council
Planning permission – Area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) – Environmental impact assessment – Defendant local authority granting planning permission for warehouse — Defendants failing to conduct an environmental impact…
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Failure to provide a written statement giving clearly and precisely the full reasons for adopting a negative screening opinion
The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulation 1999 (“the 1999 Regulations”) obliged a local planning authority (“LPA”) on adopting a positive screening opinion, and the…
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R (on the application of Evans) v Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
Planning permission – Development – Environmental impact assessment (EIA) – Respondents granting planning permission for increased use of agricultural processing plant on premise that existing use lawful – Existing use…
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R (on the application of Gibson) v Harrow District Council
Town and country planning Environmental impact assessment
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R (on the application of Gibson) v Harrow District Council
Development – Planning permission – Environmental impact assessment – Defendant council granting permission for development of open space – Claimant applying for judicial review – Whether defendants failing to consider…
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The court confirms a number of principles relating to environmental impact assessment of projects requiring planning permission
Council Directive 85/337/EEC, as subsequently amended and codified, is largely transposed into domestic law in England by the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011 (“the Regulations”).
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A reminder of the residual powers of the secretary of state to make a screening direction
The High Court challenge in R (on the application of Save Britain’s Heritage) v Secretary of State (see PP2013/135) was to the decision of the secretary of state to issue…