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Environmental assessment legally required for road scheme.

By: Series: ENDS Report ; (292) May 1999, 53(1)Publication details: 1999Subject(s): Summary: Discusses the implications of the decision in the case "R v St Edmundsbury Borough Council ex parte Walton", where the High Court quashed a local authority's decision to approve a road scheme because no environmental assessment had been carried out, and the approval was therefore deemed legally defective.

Discusses the implications of the decision in the case "R v St Edmundsbury Borough Council ex parte Walton", where the High Court quashed a local authority's decision to approve a road scheme because no environmental assessment had been carried out, and the approval was therefore deemed legally defective.