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The case concerns two related applications for the construction and operation of large offshore windfarms in the North Sea.
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In 2016 the Government announced proposals for a Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens immediately to the south of the Houses of Parliament.
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Walleys Quarry is a waste landfill site locate in Newcastle Under Lyme and which opened in February 2007.
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The Sizewell C new nuclear power station at Sizewell in East Suffolk is one of the single most important energy infrastructure projects in the UK for a generation.
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In this online briefing, Suzanne Ornsby KC and Claire Nevin who acted for South Gloucestershire Council in the appeal and Independent planning consultant Liz Fitzgerald of Barker Parry Town Planning Ltd who gave the planning evidence will discuss how the tilted balance works in practice and how local planning authorities can best present their cases at appeal.
Confirmed speakers: David Matthias KC Morag Ellis KC, Craig Howell Williams KC, Emyr Jones, Annabel Graham Paul, Charles Merrett, Esther Drabkin-Reiter, Mark O'Brien O'Reilly, Dr Charles Mynors.
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Confirmed speakers: David Matthias KC, Morag Ellis KC, Craig Howell Williams KC, Emyr Jones, Annabel Graham Paul, Charles Merrett, Esther Drabkin-Reiter, Mark O'Brien O'Reilly, Dr Charles Mynors.
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Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
The High Court, on 6 December 2023, has handed down judgment in R (Clarke-Holland & Ors) v Secretary of State for Home Department & Ors [2023] EWHC 3140 dismissing three applications brought by, respectively, Gabriel Clarke-Holland, Braintree District Council and West Lindsey District Council, regarding the use of two airfield sites by the Secretary of State for the Home Department as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers (“SSHD”).
The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chambers) has determined on the hearing of a preliminary issue that the Environment Agency's works carried out as part of the Sandwich Town Tidal Defence scheme did cause damage to the Kings Lodging, a circa fifteenth century Grade II listed building, see Brookhouse and Brookhouse v. Environment Agency [2023] UKUT 00282 (LC) involving a claim under para. 5(1) of Schedule 21 to the Water Resources Act 1991.
