Consent for the multi-million pound redevelopment of Gravesend’s Heritage Quarter is under threat now a local campaign group has decided to go to court over the way the scheme was approved by the Kent local authority.
Key elements of the housing sites allocation strategy of Rochford District Council’s adopted local plan have been challenged in the High Court in a case brought by a local resident who chairs a group campaigning against the release of Green Belt land.
Local campaigners over plans to allow exploratory drilling for oil and gas at a Surrey beauty spot have lost their Appeals Court challenge. The court upheld an earlier ruling by a High Court judge overturning the refusal by Surrey County Council to allow Europa Oil and Gas Ltd’s drilling proposals for a site at Holmwood near Dorking in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
A High Court judge has overturned a decision by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, to refuse an appeal over a 24 megawatt solar farm at Beccles, Suffolk, which the planning inspector who held the recovered appeal recommended should be allowed.
