Three tidbits

Three tidbits of interesting news/gossip:

1. First, a bit of gossip.  I now have it from two different sources that the Court of Appeal has granted permission to appeal in Coastal 1 (judgment at 1st Inst discussed here).  That’s very exciting, if true.  I would post on it if somebody would send me the PTA form …
2. Having done a post on second homes and drawn attention to the way in which Gwynedd has dealt with the issue, there was an article on North Wales Live that said that campaigners agains the Art 4 declaration had successfully obtained permission to bring their claim to judicial review.  This seems to have been at a renewal hearing before Pepperall J, and granted on the single basis (according to the article), “that the council’s Cabinet may have been ‘misled’ over the nature and extent of the changes to the county’s planning regime. This could ‘undermine the policy’s effectiveness’, he determined”.  I suspect that there is more to that ground’s framing in judicial review, but a muted congratulations to the campaigners.
3. Finally, Guy Shrubsole, the campaigner who has done great work on opening up our understanding of who owns land (albeit on a website that refers to Who owns England),  has noted that the Housing Minister has written to HM Land Registry (whch extends to Wales) to require

That the Land Registry must “widen and deepen transparency of land ownership and control”, and work on “opening up existing data and information on land, improving its accessibility and lowering the barriers to access, including tackling the cost of obtaining data”;

“I expect HMLR to work quickly on plans to restructure their charging model… I would like plans to be developed which prioritise free access to data, in particular minimising the cost of information services wherever possible”; and,

“I am also very interested in making rapid progress towards enabling others to map HMLR data, for example by linking title numbers with INSPIRE IDs… in published datasets”.