Alternative sites can be a legitimate issue

Catterall, S.

Alternative sites can be a legitimate issue - 2001 - Planning (for the Natural and Built Environment) (1419)18 May 2001, 22(1) .

Considers "R v North Warwickshire BC ex p Jones" concerning an application to overturn the grant of planning permission for a housing development on the grounds that the local authority had completely failed to consider alternative sites. Held that it is within the local authority's discretion to decide what is a material consideration, and that it was justified in this case. Alternatives would only be relevant in exceptional cases.


PLANNING PERMISSION
ALTERNATIVE SITES
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
MATERIAL CONSIDERATION
R V NORTH WARWICKSHIRE BC EX P JONES
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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE CC V SOS ENVIRONMENT