A person aggrieved by a planning or other administrative decision may well have cause to complain that things might have gone differently if he had only been consulted. He will be in a strong position, of course, if he is able to point to a breach of a specific provision requiring consultation. But even without such an advantage all may not be lost.
Help may be at hand in the shape of the doctrine of legitimate expectation, as explained by Martin Edwards and John Martin in
The points made in the article have since been well and truly driven home in Elmbridge Borough Council v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions [2000] EGCS 129, which is all about a scramble to provide another service station on the M25.
PP 2000/53
A person aggrieved by a planning or other administrative decision may well have cause to complain that things might have gone differently if he had only been consulted. He will be in a strong position, of course, if he is able to point to a breach of a specific provision requiring consultation. But even without such an advantage all may not be lost.
Help may be at hand in the shape of the doctrine of legitimate expectation, as explained by Martin Edwards and John Martin in Great expectations Estates Gazette 17 June 2000, p165.
The points made in the article have since been well and truly driven home in Elmbridge Borough Council v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions [2000] EGCS 129, which is all about a scramble to provide another service station on the M25.
