{"id":7593,"date":"2014-05-02T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7593"},"modified":"2014-05-02T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:36:28","slug":"housebuilders-win-legal-challenge-to-green-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7593","title":{"rendered":"Housebuilders\u2019 win legal challenge to green belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A judge has upheld a legal challenge by two housebuilders against a West Midlands council&#8217;s decision to adopt a local plan which placed two previously undesignated sites in the green belt, ruling that the authority had failed to take into account the &#8216;radical&#8217; policy change brought into effect by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Lioncourt Homes and Gallagher Homes launched a legal challenge against Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningresource.co.uk\/article\/1292391\/radical-nppf-change-quashes-local-plan-housing-figures?DCMP=EMC-CONPlanningResourceDaily&amp;bulletin=planning-daily\" target=\"_blank\">Planning Resource reports on the decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solihull.gov.uk\/ldf\" target=\"_blank\">Solihull Local Development Framework<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWHC\/Admin\/2014\/1283.html\" target=\"_blank\">View the High Court (Administrative Court) Decision<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has upheld a legal challenge by two housebuilders against a West Midlands council&#8217;s decision to adopt a local plan which placed two previously undesignated sites in the green belt, ruling that the authority had failed to take into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7593\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593","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=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7594,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}