HASSOCKS PARISH COUNCIL STATEMENT REGARDING FRIARS OAK JUDICIAL REVIEW

”The Parish Council has received a petition containing 664 signatures from concerned residents requesting it to initiate a Judicial Review into the decision made by Mid Sussex District Council to grant planning permission for the development of Friars Oak Fields. The Parish Council had previously joined in with a request by residents to have this decision called in by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

The Council’s Neighbourhood Plan Working Party considered this petition at its meeting on Thursday 24th November and agreed  to recommend to  Full Council on the 13th December that £5000 be allocated for the preparation of a brief for a barrister to test the likelihood of success of a Judicial Review of the District Council’s decision. The Working Party also recommended that work on this brief should commence as soon as possible rather than wait for the decision of the Secretary of State as to whether or not he will call in the application.”