It’s impossible to have missed that, despite the intentions of the Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011, the UK is about to experience its third General Election in less than five years. At 00:01 on Wednesday 6 November we entered the “pre-election period of sensitivity”, which will stay in effect until polling closes on 12 December … Read more
The rug was pulled from under the feet of the first substantial primary legislation on the environment since 1995 by the announcement of a December 2019 General Election. The Environment Bill had received a second reading on 28th October where it received cross party support and was whisked onwards to the committee stages in which … Read more
Episode five in our podcast series on the compulsory purchase regime in England is now ready to listen to – this episode can be found on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. As a reminder, the aim of the series is to provide a user friendly explanation of the basics of compulsory purchase law. We covered the … Read more
In a judgment handed down yesterday, the Court of Appeal has reversed the High Court’s decision in Finney v Welsh Ministers. The effect of the High Court decision had been that section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 could be used to vary not just the conditions to a planning permission, but … Read more
Episode four in our podcast series on the compulsory purchase regime in England is now ready to download. The aim of the series is to provide a user friendly explanation of the basics of compulsory purchase law. In episode three we discussed how a CPO is prepared and made, having covered the different types of … Read more
Last week, we posted the second in our series on the compulsory purchase regime in England, the aim of the series being to provide a user friendly explanation of the various elements of the process to give a listener a good understanding of the basics of compulsory purchase law. In the second episode we discussed … Read more
Last week, we posted the first in our series on the compulsory purchase regime in England. The aim of the series is to provide a user friendly explanation of the various elements of the process to give a listener a good understanding of the basics of compulsory purchase law. In the first episode, we explained … Read more
Compulsory purchase is sometimes necessary for development to proceed but it can be confusing for those who are unfamiliar with the process. The aim of this podcast series is to provide a user friendly explanation of the compulsory purchase regime in England, to give a listener a good understanding of the basics of compulsory purchase … Read more
In June, we wrote a quick summary of the report “Land for the Many”. Land for the Many was written by a team headed by George Monbiot and made proposals for the Labour Party to consider as future land use and planning policy. We subsequently wrote a longer article on the report, which was first … Read more
