The Public and Third Sector Law Reports
[2022] PTSR 1
Queen’s Bench Division
Smith v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and another (Equality and Human Rights Commission and others intervening)
[2021] EWHC 1650 (Admin)
2020 Dec 10, 11;
2021 June 17
2021 June 17
Pepperall J
Planning— Gipsies and travellers— Planning policy— Traveller sites policy defining gipsies and travellers as those of nomadic habit including persons who on grounds of educational or health needs or old age had ceased to travel temporarily— Whether policy unlawfully discriminating against elderly and disabled gipsies permanently settled on those grounds—
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s 70(2)(c)[1]
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Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 19[2]
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 14[3]
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National Planning Policy Framework (2019), paras 59, 61[4]