James Burton
Year of call: 2001
Today (18.03.2020) Mrs Justice Lang granted the Claimant, Keep Bourne End Green, leave to proceed with its statutory challenge to the adoption of the Wycombe Local Plan (2013-2033) (permission having been refused on the papers by Mr Justice Waksman). The five grounds for which leave was granted include that the examining Inspector's rejection of the 2016-based household projections published by the ONS in September 2018 as the starting point for calculation of objectively assessed housing need was unlawful, a point with potential implications for many "transitional" Local Plans.
James Burton appeared for the Claimant.