Monday, 31 August 2020

Legal Challenge Over New Permitted Development Rules

A campaign group has launched a judicial review challenge to the Government’s new rules on permitted development, which the Prime Minister’s Office at the time of their launch described as “the most radical reforms to our planning system since the Second World War". On 21 August Rights : Community : Action (RCA) issued a pre-action letter to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. It challenges the lawfulness of several statutory instruments. RCA claimed that the new rules had been brought in without proper consultation and without parliamentary debate. Read more on the Local Government Lawyer website.

https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/planning/401-planning-news/44693-government-hit-by-legal-challenge-over-new-permitted-development-rules

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