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The British Property Federation (BPF) has welcomed government proposals to speed up the judicial review process, including proposals to create a dedicated Land and Planning Chamber to review planning-related appeals.
The new chamber would see judicial review decisions relating to major developments taken only by expert judges and would take advantage of a streamlined process so they are considered as quickly as possible. Developers have complained in the past that lengthy legal delays to projects have forced them into financial difficulty and have caused some schemes to collapse completely.
The BPF also called for applications for judicial review to be made no later than 6 weeks after any resolution to grant planning permission, to help lessen what are often substantial time lags between the LPA’s resolution to grant and the granting of planning permission itself.
Liz Peace, Chief Executive of the BPF said: “Having greater numbers of expert judges that understand planning is a huge step forward for the development community, and the simple measure of establishing a specialist planning court should have a real impact on not only the speed of decisions, but the quality too.”