Developers cannot afford to ignore public law issues
Local amenity groups and vociferous individuals can no longer be treated as harmless pests buzzing around the heads of developers. Save for the entomology, this is the basic message to come from
The developments in question are: (i) the banishment of estoppel from planning law (and hence the comfort that might otherwise have been obtained from official utterances): see
PP 2002/218
Developers cannot afford to ignore public law issues
Local amenity groups and vociferous individuals can no longer be treated as harmless pests buzzing around the heads of developers. Save for the entomology, this is the basic message to come from The best laid plans Estates Gazette 9 November 2002, p151, where Martin Edwards and John Martin point to three developments which, taken together, should be taken as a clear signal to developers and their advisers to get to grips with the principles of public law.
The developments in question are: (i) the banishment of estoppel from planning law (and hence the comfort that might otherwise have been obtained from official utterances): see PP 2002/86; (ii) a less stringent approach to the time limit for applying for judicial review: see PP 2002/134; and (iii) a greater readiness to accept that the third party has sufficient standing to make the challenge: see PP 2002/208.
