In their article,
Food for thought indeed, but one cannot help wondering whether the swans had already been singing quite lustily for the previous three years: see the observations of Lords Hope and Clyde in City of Edinburgh Council v Secretary of State for Scotland [1997] 3 PLR 71. Referring to the section’s tartan twin in the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972, their lordships were at pains to point out that “to have regard to” did not mean “slavishly to adhere to”.
In their article, Plan-led swan song Estates Gazette 15 April 2000, p153, Martin Edwards and John Martin point to Welsh Development Agency v Carmarthenshire County Council [1999] PLSCS 234 as casting doubt upon the long-term future of the plan-led system, said to be underpinned by section 54A of the 1990 Act.
Food for thought indeed, but one cannot help wondering whether the swans had already been singing quite lustily for the previous three years: see the observations of Lords Hope and Clyde in City of Edinburgh Council v Secretary of State for Scotland [1997] 3 PLR 71. Referring to the section’s tartan twin in the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972, their lordships were at pains to point out that “to have regard to” did not mean “slavishly to adhere to”.
