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Conservative ‘decentralised Green Paper’

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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May 12 2009

In the Conservative’s Green Paper, published on 17 February 2009, a series of proposals were announced aiming to devolve the power of planning decisions away from central government to local communities

Conservative Party clarifies proposals for the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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September 10 2009

The IPC was established by the Planning Act 2008 and is currently scheduled to start work in October 2009 and begin hearing cases in early 2010

Rescuing the three-year planning permission

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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September 28 2009

In the heady days of 2005, the Government reduced the default time period for implementing planning permissions from five to three years in an attempt to prevent alleged land banking and delays in bringing developments to the market

McCarthy & others v Basildon District Council (Equality and Human Rights Commission) intervening

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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February 28 2009

The Claimants represented 40 families of travellers and gypsies in unauthorised occupation of green belt land within the defendant local planning Authority

Heathrow third runway given the ‘amber light’

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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February 28 2009

Since the launch of the Government’s consultation "Adding capacity at Heathrow Airport" in November 2007, controversy has been rife

High Court rejects challenge to eco-towns initiative

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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February 28 2009

The campaign group BARD ("Better Accessible Responsible Development") has lost its case against the Government ‘s consultation on eco-towns

R (on the application of Etherton) v Hastings Borough Council

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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February 28 2009

The Defendant local planning Authority had approved construction of flats and bungalows in the grounds of a hotel situated in a conservation area

Amber Valley BC v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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February 28 2009

The local Authority made an application to quash the decision of the planning inspector to grant planning permission

Complaint upheld against Tynedale District Council

Squire Sanders
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United Kingdom
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July 16 2009

Having established in the Calderdale case above that a complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman against the decisions and acts of an LPA can be an effective remedy for those dissatisfied, this recent case provides a useful contrast to highlight the lack of remedial bite which the Ombudsman can suffer from