Planning Inspector, Inquiry Dates and Venue

The Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State to hold the second Inquiry is J Woolcock BNatRes MURP DipLaw MRTPI. Arrangements for the Inquiry are currently being finalised by the Planning Inspectorate.The Inquiry is currently scheduled to open at 10:00 hours on...

Second Inquiry date 5th November 2024

Hello Everyone I think that this has already been posted here but we just heard today that the next inquiry will start on 5th November and has been currently pencilled for 6 days. This is the same length of the last one!This gives us plenty more preparation time and...

Planning Inquiry Number Two

Hello Everyone,Since the Judicial Review decision we have been waiting to hear the next steps of this long process. We have now been notified that there will be a second inquiry to determine the original appeal again. I will add the letter we have received later.We...

Judicial Review Decision

Hello EveryoneUnfortunately we just heard about the Judicial Review outcome and it isn’t favourable.The judge ruled that the Inspector should not have referred to future legislation and that was a legal error.We can take comfort from the fact that 95% of his...

Judicial Review update

Hi AllSo the Judicial Review happened today, 31 Oct 2023 (Haloween!). Report back from our Barrister is positive but ultimately its down to the judge. The likely main argument is the biodiversity reference to future legislation in the Inspectors report. This was...

Update On Where We Are

On Thursday last week we had a hearing. We were expecting one hearing but the court split the two issues in to two hearings. The second is later this month after which the judgement is reached. The first hearing was a threshold for a permission hearing to decide if...