Planning Objections

Do you object to your neighbour’s application for planning permission, and are you unsure how best to make your case? Is there a planning proposal in your area that will affect you, and against which you want to make a protest that will have real impact? Do you want to become an important third party in a planning appeal? These are all areas in which we specialise.

Can We Help You With A Planning Objection?

To ensure that your Planning Objection carries the maximum weight, you need expert legal help from planning law specialists. We can tell you how to object to ensure the best outcome for you.

Please call us on 01634 811 118, complete our online enquiry form, or email our planning law expert Nicholas Kingsley-Smith.

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R (Langley Park School for Girls) v Bromley LBC and Langley Park School for Boys [2009] EWCA Civ 734

Court of Appeal grapples with materiality of alternative schemes in planning decisions

In an important judgment the Court of Appeal has overturned a decision of Wyn Williams J and has quashed a grant of planning permission for the redevelopment of a school on Metropolitan Open Land because of a failure to consider properly whether an alternative scheme for the redevelopment might cause less planning harm.  While there are many instances of the treatment of alternative sites/schemes by decision-makers being upheld by the courts, there are very few reported examples of a failure to take alternatives into account leading to a decision being quashed.  In his judgment (with which the Chancellor of the High Court and Moore-Bick LJ agreed) Sullivan LJ said that the woefully inadequate failure of the report to committee to explain the harm caused by the application proposal meant that Councillors were in no position to decide whether the possibility of the scheme being carried out in an alternative, less harmful way was material to their decision.

Kingsley Smith Solicitors LLP represented the successful Appellant, Langley Park School for Girls.