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Planning, Environment & Property
Planning Conditions and Highways – the Symmetry Appeal
The Court of Appeal have allowed the appeal of DB Symmetry against a decision of the High Court that a planning condition required the dedication of roads as highways: Swindon… Read more »
Court of Appeal hears appeal against costs award payable by the Interested Party in Debenham Antiques v Cherie Easter and Mid-Suffolk District Council. Victoria Hutton represented the First Respondent.
Yesterday the Court of Appeal heard the appeal of Debenham Antiques against an order of the High Court that it pay c.50% of Ms Easter’s (the original Claimant) costs. The… Read more »
Central Issues for the Central Region – Planning & Environmental Law Update
Stephen Tromans QC, John Pugh-Smith and Gethin Thomas will present 39 Essex Chambers’ annual Birmingham regional seminar virtually this year via Zoom, focussing on planning and environmental issues relevant to… Read more »
39 from 39 Series 2: Episode 1 – Class E and other aspects of the new amendments to the Use Classes Order 1987
Each webinar will offer approximately 39 minutes of in-depth analysis of carefully selected current planning and environment related issues, to provide consideration over their practical significance for those involved in… Read more »
Episode 3 of Stephen Tromans QC’s short videos on current issues in environmental and planning law
Stephen reflects on the untimely death of a pigeon and the PM’s ambitions on offshore wind energy.
Planning, Environment and Property Newsletter – 8th October 2020
Welcome to the latest edition of our Planning, Environment and Property newsletter. We hope that you have all been keeping well during the period since our last edition. The plan… Read more »
PODCAST: A short history of short cuts in the planning system
In this podcast, Richard Harwood QC looks at the numerous ways of obtaining planning consent without making a planning application to the local authority and asks, how far have development… Read more »
Cold War – with Richard Harwood QC
In this episode, Richard discusses the planning battle over a relic of the Cold War in Cambridge and asks what does it tell us about ourselves?
Richard Harwood OBE QC profiled in EG
Judicial review is vital to ensuring that planning decisions are made “properly and fairly”. That, unsurprisingly, is the ardent belief of Richard Harwood OBE QC, joint head of chambers at… Read more »
39 from 39 – Episode 13: Pollution Home and Away
39 Essex Chambers presents a series of Planning and Environment related webinars Each webinar will offer approximately 39 minutes of in-depth analysis of carefully selected current planning and environment related… Read more »
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