The Company aims to get the SODC local development plan overturned. Sue Roberts, Chair of Bioabundance says: “This plan is to build four times more homes than can even be filled, according to current trends. Government is selling off the land under our feet to create economic growth in our area. We would have to […]
Category: Legal Actions
Leigh Day: Details of Bioabundance Appeal
On Thursday 29 April, lawyers for Bioabundance will attend an oral hearing by video link to assert that our case against the South Oxfordshire Local plan is sufficiently strong that it should be heard in the High Court. See the press release issued by Leigh Day
Housing Today coverage of our legal appeal
Oxford Mail covers appeal to get court hearing
Lawyers for Bioabundance are seeking an oral hearing to reverse the court’s initial refusal to allow a statutory review of South Oxfordshire’s Local Plan. Read today’s article 6 April 2021 Read article from 3 April 2021
BBC covers our appeal for court hearing
Bioabundance has taken steps to reverse the court’s refusal to accept its challenge of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan. In filing an appeal, Lawyers state that the case is ‘clearly arguable’ and deserves a full hearing. Read the full story
Bioabundance appeals court refusal of Judicial Review
Read the full story in Envirotec Magazine
Bioabundance files appeal to have legal action proceed
Today Bioabundance lodged an appeal with the planning court for it to reconsider its decision (Monday 29 March) to refuse our application for statutory review of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan. This oral hearing will allow lawyers to assert that the claim is clearly arguable and should go ahead. Dr Sue Roberts, director of Bioabundance, […]
Global law firm focuses on our case
The multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has written about our legal action against SODC in its daily briefing service (3 March) and highlighted particularly the legal significance of the climate change grounds. Planning law expert Nick McDonald notes that “the case is of interest to developers and local planning authorities alike, as it is the […]
Bioabundance files with High Court Re: Local Plan 2035
On Thursday 21st of January 2021, Bioabundance issued a legal claim against South Oxfordshire District Council, concerning the decision by the Council to go ahead with the Local Plan 2035. Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) was named as an interested party. We hope for the plan […]