Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2003] All ER (D) 372 (Dec)
Neutral Citation: [2003] EWCA Civ 1860
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:

Simon Brown, Keene and Scott Baker LJJ

Representation Robert McCraken and Gregory Jones (instructed by Richard Buxton) for the claimant.
  Timothy Straker QC and Paul Greatorex (instructed by Catherine Whitehead) for the first defendant.
  Philip Sales and James Maurici (instructed the Treasury Solicitor) for the second defendant.
  Thomas Hill (instructed by Walker Morris) for the interested party.
Judgment Dates: 19 December 2003

Catchwords

Town and country planning - Planning permission - Environmental impact assessment development - Procedure - Duty to comply with regulations - Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999, SI 1999/293, regs 3(2) and 21(1).

The Case

a Paragraph 12(1), so far as material, provides: ' a member with a prejudicial interest in any matter must - (a) withdraw from the room or chamber where a meeting is being held whenever it becomes apparent that the matter is being considered at that meeting, unless he has obtained a dispensation for the authority's standards committee '

Practice Areas

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