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By: Series: Solicitors' Journal ; 148(39) 15 October 2004, 1176-1178(2)Publication details: 2004Subject(s): Summary: Looks at "R v SOS for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, ex P Holding and Barnes plc" (QBD, Abs63468), which was the first major human rights challenge to the planning system. The House of Lords rejected a challenge based on alleged Article 6 incompatibilities of the procedures for determination of planning appeals and called-in planning applications. Examines several cases in light of the Human Rights Act 1998. Concludes the decision in "Lough v First Secretary of State and Bankside Developments Ltd" ([2004] EWCA Civ 905, [2004] 1 WLR 2557) shows that the courts are extremely reluctant to permit human rights challenges to the planning system in all but the most peripheral cases.

Looks at "R v SOS for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, ex P Holding and Barnes plc" (QBD, Abs63468), which was the first major human rights challenge to the planning system. The House of Lords rejected a challenge based on alleged Article 6 incompatibilities of the procedures for determination of planning appeals and called-in planning applications. Examines several cases in light of the Human Rights Act 1998. Concludes the decision in "Lough v First Secretary of State and Bankside Developments Ltd" ([2004] EWCA Civ 905, [2004] 1 WLR 2557) shows that the courts are extremely reluctant to permit human rights challenges to the planning system in all but the most peripheral cases.