[Stones] New houses for Avebury?

[Andy Norfolk]

I'm not a lawyer, but I am involved in a lot of planning related work in 
my day job. Bluntly there is no way to challenge a planning permission 
once it has been given. Well that's not quite true, a judicial review of 
the process could be mounted if there were any signs that the set 
process had not been followed. Judicial reviews are hideously expensive.

Planning applications must be made public and advertised at the site for 
a set period in advance. The scheme details would have been available on 
line and there would have been at least a few weeks in which to comment. 
If the details were not advertised publicly  or the notices were there 
for too short a period that might be a place to start. However I'd be 
very surprised if the usual rules weren't followed.

You could just possibly persuade central government ot call the decision 
in even at this late stage, but it would have to be on the basis that 
national, regional and local planning policies were not followed.

This is difficult to do. Just think about how much more difficult it 
will be to challenge planning applications under the new streamlined 
process that the government is proposing.

Andy N


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