The Public and Third Sector Law Reports
[2018] PTSR 1310
Queen’s Bench Division
Regina (Crematoria Management Ltd)
v
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
[2018] EWHC 382 (Admin)
2018 Jan 17;
March 1
March 1
Sir Wyn Williams sitting as a High Court judge
Planning— Environmental impact assessment— Screening opinion— Local planning authority granting planning permission for crematorium development on site of cemetery within Green Belt— Whether grant of permission unlawful for failure to adopt screening opinion as to whether environmental impact assessment required— Whether proposed development constituting “urban development project”— Whether local authority erring in assessment of need for development—
Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1824) (as amended by Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/660), reg 3(2)), reg 7, Sch 2, table, para 10