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Planning Update: SEA change
Rachael Herbert examines recent decisions concerning the role that strategic environmental assessments play in the plan-making process, and the consideration of reasonable alternatives ‘An environmental assessment is to be carried out for all plans and programmes listed in Art 5 of the SEA Regulations.’ There has been a spate of recent cases concerning the requirement …
Cases Referenced
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- Ashdown Forest Economic Development LLP v Wealden District Council & anor [2015] EWCA Civ 681
- Calverton Parish Council v Nottingham City Council & ors [2015] EWHC 1078 (Admin)
- Cogent Land LLP v Rochford District Council & anor [2012] EWHC 2542 (Admin)
- Heard v Broadland District Council & ors [2012] EWHC 344 (Admin)
- IM Properties Development Ltd v Lichfield District Council & ors [2015] EWHC 2077 (Admin)
- Lisle-Mainwaring & anor v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2015] EWHC 2105 (Admin)
- R (on the application of Friends of the Earth England
- Save Historic Newmarket Ltd v Forest Heath District Council [2011] EWHC 606 (Admin)
- Wales and Northern Ireland Ltd) v Welsh Ministers [2015] EWHC 776 (Admin)