image for illustration: Barbican Estate by Riodamascus, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Campaigners fighting plans to redevelop an area on the edge of the Barbican Estate have won permission to proceed with a legal challenge that claims alternatives to demolition were overlooked, reports the Architects Journal.
Architects Journal writes:
… This week, a High Court judge granted permission for the judicial review to proceed…
The legal case, according to the campaign group’s legal team, has been granted on three grounds relating to:
(i) … absence of appropriate arrangements to ensure impartiality in the determination…;
(ii) … failure to apply policy relating to avoiding demolition…
(iii) the failure to consider alternatives …
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