CHESHIRE East Council has announced that it is to mount a High Court challenge over the Government’s decision to permit 170 new houses to be built in Willaston.
It follows the planning inspectorate’s decision to uphold an appeal made by Richborough Estates to develop land at Moorfields.
A council spokesman said: “On legal advice from leading counsel, the authority has taken the view that there are sufficient grounds to justify an application to the High Court to challenge the decision by Government Planning Inspector Alan Boyland to grant planning consent to the builders and to overturn the original planning refusal by Cheshire East Council.”
The matter was the subject of a planning inquiry this year and the outcome of the inquiry, before the planning inspector, was announced on August 1, 2014, that permission be granted for the erection of up to 170 dwellings and associated infrastructure together with open space.
Cheshire East Council is to argue that the planning inspector failed to understand, interpret or apply the correct approach in four areas of planning policy and housing need in relation to this particular site.
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