BREXIT – the Final Act?
I did warn you that I might very well return to Brexit before getting back to planning law, and this week I have every excuse for doing so. It is a subject that is too important to ignore. A number of...
View ArticleBREXIT – the Final Act (Scene Two)
[I had intended that my next blog post would be on a planning law topic, as there has been another Court of Appeal decision on confiscation orders under POCA, which seems on the face of it to cut down...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal cuts scope of POCA confiscation orders
[The last few paragraphs of this post were slightly revised on 2 May 2019 in order to make my concluding remarks clearer.] I have no particular interest in POCA as such, but there have been several...
View ArticleHoliday lets revisited
I don’t usually report on planning appeal decisions, but I did prick up my ears at a decision in Cambridge [3196460] which was issued on 4 March. This related to conjoined appeals against a series of...
View ArticleFurther changes to Permitted Development
I have not commented recently on the current and future prospects for permitted development. To summarise briefly, in Part 3 of the Second Schedule to the GPDO, the government has announced that it...
View ArticleSupreme Court to consider ‘implied’ conditions
I reported in this blog on both the High Court judgment [ [2017] EWHC 2412 (Admin) ] and the decision of the Court of Appeal [ [2018] EWCA Civ 844 ] in Lambeth LBC v SSCLG. This case has been appealed...
View ArticleNew amendments to the GPDO
I have been keeping a look-out on the UK Legislation website for the expected amendment to the GPDO, searching (not unreasonably) under “General Permitted Development Order”, but MHCLG were too clever...
View ArticleBrexit – whither now?
There was little point in commenting on Brexit again while Theresa May’s premiership was in the process of finally collapsing, until the outcome of the election for the European parliament became...
View ArticleA Practical Guide to Planning, Highways and Development - the book and the...
I really should have alerted readers of this blog before now to a very useful seminar that Bath Publishing have organised in connection with the recent publication of Tom Graham’s book on “A Practical...
View ArticleSupreme Court allows Lambeth appeal
Judgment was handed down this morning in Lambeth LBC v SSHCLG ([2019] UKSC 33). Lambeth's appeal was allowed. I haven't had time yet to read the judgment, but will post a summary shortly. MARTIN H GOODALL
View ArticleThe Lambeth case – Conditions in a section 73 permission
I have been very busy recently on another major writing project (of which more anon), which has prevented my posting anything on this blog recently. Now that I have a few moments, I have taken the...
View ArticleBojo to run Tory Circus*
[*into the ground] So there you have it; despite his manifest unsuitability for this or any other position of responsibility, Bojo the Clown has, as expected, been made Chief Clown by the collective...
View ArticleAll change at MHCLG
The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire, was one of the casualties in Bojo’s ‘Night of the Long Knives’ this evening (the most dramatic cabinet reshuffle...
View ArticleFees imposed on prior approval applications for domestic extensions
As expected, the fee regime that has applied for some time to prior approval applications under various parts of the Second Schedule to the GPDO is now to be extended to Part 1, so that prior approval...
View ArticleA Practical Guide to Permitted Changes of Use - THIRD EDITION
The Second Edition of A Practical Guide to Permitted Changes of Use was published in the Autumn of 2016, and the time is fast approaching when a Third Edition of this very popular handbook is going to...
View ArticlePrior approval applications – extending time for determination
There was no provision in the 1995 version of the GPDO for any extension of time in respect of the determination of a prior approval application. However, Article 7 of the 2015 Order appeared to allow...
View ArticleA brief digression from Planning Law
Planning law is simply one branch of Constitutional and Administrative Law (Public Law) and so, after posting several recent items purely on planning law, I feel justified in widening the scope of this...
View Article“Veeery interestink…………..”
Last week, I was looking through my notes for potential blog posts on various planning law issues, but they all seemed deeply boring, and I couldn’t be bothered to write them up for the time being....
View Article“…………………………..but stoopid.”
The increasingly toxic emissions from 10 Downing Street in the last day or so are not what one might reasonably expect from a government confident of its position. They betray an air of increasing...
View ArticlePermitted Changes of Use – and now the Seminar
In addition to publishing the Third Edition of my book, “A Practical Guide to Permitted Changes of Use” in October, BATH PUBLISHING are organising a new seminar on this subject, in conjunction with...
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