Appropriation of rights and compulsory purchase
Question: What do Chelsea FC & the High Court’s decision in Rainbird have in common & what is the link with CPOs?
Written by
Mary Cook
Is It Safe To Grant Planning Permission?
To what extent is human safety, and the safe construction of buildings, a matter for the town and country planning system?
Written by
Simon Ricketts
Compulsory Reading: Vicarage Field CPO – Part 3
In this final post on an Inspector’s decision not to confirm Barking and Dagenham’s Vicarage Field CPO, I look at how the Inspector treated alternative proposals for redevelopment made by two of the objectors.
Written by
Raj Gupta
Compulsory Reading: The peaks and pitfalls of promoting a CPO
While we wait for the Commons Select Committee to consider the CPO aspects of the LURB and for DLUHC’s assessment of the response to the consultation on land value capture, we thought we would fill the gap with a back-to-basics entry on CPO promotion.
Written by
Emma McDonald & Paul Arnett
Why health and safety is becoming everybody’s business
The High Court has considered the approach that planning decision-makers should take when dealing with schemes that pose serious health and safety risks.
Written by
Nikita Sellers
Shedding Light and Luminance
BRE have issued a "comprehensive revision of the 2021 edition of Site layout planning for daylight and sunlight".
Written by
Mary Cook & Aline Hyde
Planning Law (With Chickens): Quarterly: Chickens, LURB and Call-ins
In this first quarterly episode, we meet the flock, consider our favourite, least favourite and most misunderstood sections of the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill, take a look at the recent GOESA case and chat to planning barrister Stephanie Hall.
Featuring
Victoria McKeegan and Nikita Sellers
Compulsory Reading: Any hope for “Hope Value”?
As reported in the last entry of this blog, DLUHC is consulting on proposals to “allow acquiring authorities to request a direction from the Secretary of State that, for a specific scheme, payments in respect of hope value may be capped at existing use value or an amount above existing use value where it can be shown that the public interest in doing so would be justified.”
Written by
Raj Gupta & Juliet Munn
Your say on reforms to CPO compensation
Hot on the heels of the procedural compulsory purchase reforms in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill (LURB)...
Written by
Paul Arnett