A letter from communities secretary Eric Pickles advising councils that they can disregard regional housing targets is not legally enforceable, according to a leading planning barrister.
Peter Village QC has already provided formal advice to three major housebuilders - including Persimmon - that the minister's letter would not stand up in court. The letter was recently cited by Cotswold District Council in its rejection of an application for 300 homes by housebuilder Cala Homes.
Village said that the Pickles letter was flawed because it effectively assumes that the regional spatial strategies do not exist and will be abolished, but this is a matter that Parliament has yet to decide.
Watch this space for Ministerial reation to the news.........
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