{"id":37650,"date":"2023-09-22T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37650"},"modified":"2023-09-22T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:29:22","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-glasgow-council-admits-erring-in-law-over-wyndford-flats-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37650","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Glasgow Council admits erring in law over Wyndford flats demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34501 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/High_flats_at_Wyndford_Road_geograph_2057121_Lairich_Rig_Wikimedia_Commons-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"183\" \/>Glasgow Council faces a \u00a310,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/crime_courts\/\">court<\/a> costs bill after admitting it erred in law over plans for one of Scotland&#8217;s biggest proposed demolition projects, reports the <em>Herald<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=83342984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wyndford<\/a> by Lairich Rig, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The Herald<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners fighting the demolition of four 26-storey towers at Wyndford in the Maryhill area have won a judicial review case after taking concerns to court over a failure to carry out an impact assessment by Glasgow City Council or the Scottish Government.<\/p>\n<p>They argued that there was a failure to act lawfully over a decision to not have an environmental impact assessment over the demolition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 judge Lord Lake has ruled following a concession from the council, that \u201cadequate reasons\u201d were \u201cnot provided\u201d in terms of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/law\/\">law<\/a> surrounding use of impact assessments in decision-making. He also said that the council were liable for the campaigners&#8217; costs in the action which have been estimated at around \u00a310,000\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 the council \u201cacknowledge&#8230; that the interests of [the campaigners] were prejudiced by a failure to comply with the relevant requirements and that for this reason alone the decision may properly be quashed by the court\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/23790531.glasgow-council-admits-erring-law-wyndford-flats-demolition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glasgow Council faces a \u00a310,000 court costs bill after admitting it erred in law over plans for one of Scotland&#8217;s biggest proposed demolition projects, reports the Herald. image for illustration: Wyndford by Lairich Rig, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37650","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\/37650","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37651,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37650\/revisions\/37651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}