Post-match analysis of a planning decision
A good analogy for a planning process and decision is a football match. For large applications here in central Edinburgh, we have one side as the developer or applying company. If it is disputed,...
Category: Equal Right of Appeal
Resourcing Equal Rights: What Price Justice?
“Planning authorities are under increasing pressure to speed up the time taken to process planning applications. This is happening at a time of tightening resources and staff levels… Given this, the regular challenging of...
Give Us A Hand To Get Equal Rights of Appeal
5 things you can do: 1. Sign up as an ERA champion By promising to contact at least four community councils or groups in your local area to ask them to sign up as supporters....
Planning: The People’s Perspective Conference 25th April 2015
Planning: The People’s Perspective, this is the event to be at if you are interested in looking at planning through the public eye. This will be a day that gathers together people who have...
First step towards Equal Rights Achieved
This week we are celebrating the fact that the Petitions Committee heeded our request to refer our petition to the Local Government and Regeneration Committee. The LGR committee has a busy workplan ahead including...
The latest on our Petition
The deadline for the next stage of the Petitions Committee process was upon us today. We have been beavering away all weekend, fine tuning our 9 page document that responds to the evidence sent...
What did your MSP say about Equal Rights of Appeal?
Did you send our draft letter to your MSP, if so we want to hear from you: what did your MSP say about Equal Rights of Appeal? As you’ll no doubt be aware, we...
Taking the Equal Rights of Appeal Petition to Holyrood
Earlier this month, two of our board members Clare Symonds and Helen McDade, spoke at the Scottish Parliament Petitions Committee, as part of the process of lodging our Equal Rights of Appeal Petition. At...
Canonbie – We Weren’t Warned About Huge Coal-Bed-Methane Development on Our Doorstep
Canonbie: Local community kept in the dark as planning permission granted for the UK’s first nineteen coal-bed methane extraction sites. Residents of Canonbie, a village of less than 500 by the English border, are...
Call on your MSP to back Equal Rights of Appeal in Planning
Support our campaign to establish a level playing field for communities and developers by calling on your MSP to back Equal Rights of Appeal in Planning. We have contacted Derek MacKay, the Minister for...