| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Urgent public meeting - will you be there? | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 10/07/15 11:20:00 |
| My bemusement remains that the weight of support or opposition to a planning application isn't any basis for a judicial review, nor is there such a thing in planning as 'precedent', so in terms of the judicial review those matters are consigned to the bin. I'm sure the QC has already made that absolutely clear. A JR can only be successful it is can be demonstrated that the determination of the application by the relevant authority was legally flawed in some way. To date, no-one seems able/willing to actually state on this website upon what basis the JR is being sought. Previously it was mooted by some posters that the applicants pre-application consultation process was flawed, then later on that allegation seemed to disappear and be replaced by a suggestion that the Council hadn't undertaken it's proper statutory neighbour notification function, then more recently I read quotes suggesting that the approval was contrary to the Council's own emerging local plan policies. Hence my bemusement - is it really that hard for someone to set out on this forum exactly what legal basis a JR is being sought on, rather than talking about the weight of opposition or such like which trust me is wholly irrelevant to the JR process. |