R (Buckinghamshire Council) v Secretary of State for Transport

Subject Matter

PLANNING — High speed rail project — Building works — Request for approval of arrangements for routes proposed for large goods vehicles to and from construction sites — Local authority considering requests invalid as information supplied inadequate to enable authority to evaluate effect on transport — Appeal against authority’s non-determination of requests — Nature and level of information to be supplied on request for approval — Whether Secretaries of State having jurisdiction to entertain appeal where sufficiency, relevance or necessity of further information disputed — Extent to which authority having power to seek modification of proposed routes — High Speed Rail (London–West Midlands) Act 2017 (c 7), Sch 17, para 6

[2022] EWHC 1923 (Admin); [2023] PTSR 407; [2022] WLR(D) 326, QBD

Commentary

Local Government Lawyer
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