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This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of High Court decisions on whether quashing of a prior approval engages deemed...
Planning analysis: In Herod Property v WCC, the High Court held that a developer relying on the ‘zero CIL’ exception may lawfully decide not to submit...
Natural England has published guidance on how Local Sites in England should be selected, managed, reviewed and deselected. Local Sites are areas of...
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO), Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office...
Statutory wayleaves and rights of accessUtilitiesThe water, gas, electricity, communications and energy industries enjoy statutory rights of access...
Planning conditions—the six testsPowers to impose planning conditionsThe general powers for local planning authorities (LPAs) to impose conditions on...
What rights of access are there over an unadopted road, the owner of which is unknown?Normally, if there is privately owned land in between a property...
What is a section 111 agreement?Section 111 agreements are agreements entered into with a local authority under section 111 of the Local Government...
Is it possible to legally change the name of an applicant on a planning application once the application has been submitted but prior to determination?See the Planning Portal’s guidance notes: Can I amend a submitted application? This explains how to make amendments to an application which has been
Local planning authority as applicant for planning permission to itselfLocal authorities are not immune from having to obtain planning permission to develop land. The grant of planning permission by any local authority to itself has always been an area of criticism, particularly as the grant of
What is the difference between an appeal and a review?What is an appeal?An appeal in insolvency proceedings is no different to an appeal in normal litigation. An appeal will be allowed only if the appeal court is satisfied that the decision of the lower court was 'wrong' or 'unjust because of a
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some point
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