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Ep199: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

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Show Notes

This is the ninth 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: A secretary of state decision that involved the use of a very rare direction allowing ministers to block the publication of specific evidence in a planning inquiry; How a housing scheme achieved consent in the setting of a World Heritage Site; A High Court ruling on the use of section 73 applications to modify affordable housing contributions; The difficulties facing local planning authorities defending new home appeals when they lack a five year housing land supply; And a planning inspector blocking a council's bid to take enforcement action against an unlawful mural of Mary Poppins.

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

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