Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 77 (Apr)
Neutral Citation: [2012] EWHC 977 (Admin)
Court: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court
Judge:

Lindblom J

Representation Gregory Jones QC and Richard Honey (instructed by Dickinson Dees LLP) for the claimant.
  Rhodri Price Lewis QC (instructed by Legal Services Department, Basingstoke and Dean Borough Council) for the authority.
Judgment Dates: 17 April 2012

Catchwords

Judicial review - Application for judicial review - Application for permission to apply for judicial review - Defendant local planning authority being landowner of site - Authority refusing to identify site for development for purposes of core strategy - Claimant seeking judicial review of decisions - Whether claim excluded from court's jurisdiction - .

The Case

Judicial review Application for judicial review. The Administrative Court allowed the claimant's application for judicial review of the defendant local planning authority's decisions that a site should not be identified for development for the purposes of its core strategy and held that the claim was not excluded from the court's jurisdiction in a claim for judicial review by s113 of the and that the decisions had been unlawful.

Practice Areas

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