Steps to listing an asset of community value
Increasing numbers of sites are being registered by community groups as Assets of Community Value or ACVs. These range from […]
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Shale planning: forward guidance is not new policy
Publication of the Government’s criteria for the 14th Round of Petroleum Exploration Development Licences (PEDLs) has been carefully choreographed to […]
Shale Round takes shape
The Government has published the application criteria for the 14th Onshore Petroleum Exploration Development Licence (PEDL) Round, accompanied by new […]
Success for Sainsbury’s at city centre store
The High Court has upheld the decision of the Secretary of State to grant planning permission for a foodstore in […]
Success for Dentons at Rushden Lakes
The Secretary of State has granted permission for the £50million, 465,000 sq ft retail and leisure redevelopment of Rushden Lakes […]
The Infrastructure Bill
The Infrastructure Bill was introduced into Parliament on 6 June 2014. The Bill proposes minor changes to the Nationally Significant […]
Viability in planning – the environmental information regime
The recent First Tier Tribunal (FTT) (Information Rights) decision on disclosure of key parts of Lend Lease’s Heygate Estate viability […]
Viability in planning – transparency where it matters?
We highlighted the significance of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) decision to require disclosure of financial information relating to the […]
Planning Court victory for Sainsbury’s
We successfully acted for Sainsbury’s in defending a judicial review seeking to challenge planning permission for the supermarket’s new store in […]
Reducing contributions
Another developer has successfully appealed under Section 106BC of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to reduce its affordable […]
EIA changes are welcome … in part
Some of the changes to the EIA regime, which look likely to come into effect in the UK in 2016, […]
Environmental Impact Assessment Directive: tinkering one step closer
The European Parliament and the Council of Minsters have approved the Commission’s proposed changes to the EIA Directive. The Directive […]
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