| Topic: | Re:Heathrow - Panorama Monday : Friends in High Places | |
| Posted by: | Neil Anderson | |
| Date/Time: | 22/07/08 11:08:00 |
| According to the government's Planning Portal website, a judicial review is possible: "In a nutshell the regime would work like this. The Government would issue national policy statements in the relevant policy areas. This would be after public consultation and Parliamentary scrutiny (the expectation is that a new Parliamentary Select Committee would be formed specifically for this purpose). Subsequently the application for development consent would be decided by the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), a panel of experts who would hear the evidence as well as taking the final decision. There would be no right of appeal against the decision of the IPC, except by judicial review in the High Court. These new arrangements would cover projects in the fields of energy, transport, water, waste water and waste. The SoS, rather than the IPC, would be able to decide on an application only in exceptional and very proscribed circumstances." BTW I must make a correction to an earlier post. I said that a public enquiry into BAA's application for a second runway at Stansted had been put on hold. Yesterday Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government called in the plans and a public enquiry will now take place. |