{"id":20378,"date":"2018-10-06T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20378"},"modified":"2018-10-06T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T15:25:45","slug":"ihbcs-practice-insights-costs-award-against-lambeth-council-highlights-importance-of-site-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20378","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Practice insights\u2019: Costs award against Lambeth Council highlights importance of site visits!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The IHBC\u2019s Policy Chair Roy Lewis had drawn attention to the award of costs against Lambeth Council in a recent appeal, which emphasises the importance of doing site visits!<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following an application for costs in the case of\u00a0 a successful appeal against Lambeth Council for refusal by London Russian Ballet School, the Planning Inspectorate awarded costs against the Council as it concluded that: \u2018In failing to produce evidence and making inaccurate assertions about the proposal\u2019s impact, unsupported by site inspection or objective analysis, the Council could not substantiate these reasons for refusal\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>IHBC Policy Chair Roy Lewis said: \u2018The costs appeal decision highlights the essential need for site visits, and also that expert witnesses in public inquiries need to have a full grasp of the relevant legislation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is especially important as anecdotal evidence suggests that some authorities are cutting back on site visits, which is a concern, while IHBC members should also have regard to this in respect of our Code of Conduct.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The costs application was in relation to Appeals ref: APP\/N5660\/W\/16\/3151091 and APP\/N5660\/Y\/16\/3151092?London Russian Ballet School, 42 Clapham Manor Street, London SW4 6DZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IHBC\u2019s Policy Chair Roy Lewis had drawn attention to the award of costs against Lambeth Council in a recent appeal, which emphasises the importance of doing site visits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20379,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions\/20379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}