by Ian Walmsley | Sep 22, 2026
Cemex is a Planning Court authority on residential development beside an established noisy minerals operation, closed-window noise mitigation and the need to consider possible future restrictions on the existing business.
by Ian Walmsley | Sep 12, 2026
Blewett explains why an environmental statement is not judged against perfection. The EIA challenge failed, but the permission was quashed on a separate waste-policy ground.
by Ian Walmsley | Sep 12, 2026
West Bowers explains why constructing an agricultural reservoir can also involve substantial mineral extraction requiring its own planning justification, even where the works form one physical process.
by Ian Walmsley | Sep 11, 2026
Court of Appeal authority confirming that hydrocarbon exploration must be judged as the development actually proposed, without importing hypothetical effects of a later commercial production scheme requiring separate permission.