Planning
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Planning for build to rent
Claire Fallows and Pauline Roberts survey the current planning landscape for build‑to-rent schemes.
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Brexit, planning and the environment: key questions
The noise of Brexit is in danger of drowning out its practical implications for planning
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Early engagement under the new NPPF
Has pre-application consultation become a material consideration in England through the new National Planning Policy Framework?
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Homes for Londoners
Jay Das offers an update on the London mayor’s new planning guidance, aimed at boosting affordable housing supply in the capital
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The statutory time limit for legal challenges to development consent orders
In R (on the application of Williams) v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change [2015] EWHC 1202 (Admin), the claimant sought to challenge under section 118 of the…
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An inspectors refusal to impose a Grampian-type condition upheld
An inspectors refusal to impose a Grampian-type condition upheld
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A “limitation” in the description of the development in a planning permission does not operate as a condition
The court, in I’m Your Man Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment [1998] EWHC 866 (Admin); [1998] 4 PLR 107, held that there is no express or implied…
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An example of a planning committee failing to interpret development plan policies correctly
It is settled law that a local planning authority (“LPA”), in determining an application for planning permission, is required to proceed on the basis of a proper interpretation of the…
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PP 2013/60 The statutory power to correct a decision letter of the Secretary of State or one of his inspectors is exercisable only within a strict time limit
Section 56(1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (“the Act”) empowers the Secretary of State, or his inspector, (as the case may be) to correct an error in…
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PP 2013/17
Town and country planning; Planning appeal
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PP 2013/15 In statutory and judicial review a mistake of fact giving rise to an unfairness may amount to a error of law
Town and country planning; Planning appeal