Rights: Community: Action has instructed Leigh Day Solicitors to issue a ‘pre-action’ letter warning of a Judicial Review claim in relation to the government’s new rules on permitted development rights.
Rights: Community: Action writes:
The government declared its new rules on permitted development to be one of the most radical shake-ups of planning law since World War II. The changes will allow your next door neighbour to add two storeys to their house without permission and will allow developers to replace commercial sites with slum housing.
On 27 August 2020 Rights : Community : Action issued a claim for Judicial Review of the new rules before they are due to take effect in the following week.
The rules were laid before Parliament on the last day of the parliamentary term, and they are due to come into effect the day before Parliament returns so there has been no proper scrutiny of them by our elected body. But nor have they been subject to the proper processes of assessment and public consultation that should accompany such radical legislation.
If you care about open government that listens to people, about the environment or about the right of people to have a say in how land is developed, please support our claim.
RCA has instructed Leigh Day and Paul Brown QC and Alex Shattock of Landmark Chambers.
