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Ep193: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

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Show Notes

This is the eighth edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar who compiles Planning's long-running Casebook section.

This month, we will be discussing:

The issues raised by the secretary of state approval of controversial plans to build a new Chinese Embassy in central London; Why an inspector endorsed a council’s own approach to assessing its five-year housing land supply rather than the usual government method; The significance of a High Court ruling that provides clarity on how decision-makers should assess greenhouse gas emissions; And how inspectors and ministers are considering the agent of change principle.

More information on all these cases can be found in the February edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.

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