Commentary on Sections Planning proceedings Section 91: Procedure for certain planning challenges
674.Section 91 introduces Schedule 16, which contains amendments to provide that challenges to a range of planning-related decisions and actions may only be brought with leave of the High Court. The amendments require applications for leave to be made before the end of the six-week period specified in relation to the decision or action in question.
675.The amendments made by Schedule 16 also provide that costs awards connected with planning and listed building decisions and actions may be challenged in the same way as the substantive action itself – by way of statutory review.