“…Carnwath approved the decision of this court in R (Oakley) v South Cambridgeshire District Council [2017] EWCA Civ 71, [2017] 1 WLR 3765. That was a case in which the development would have a “significant and lasting impact on the local community”, and involved a substantial d…”
“…ns to be given for refusing to call in a planning application. That is important. As Sales LJ pointed out in R (Oakley) v South Cambridgeshire District Council [2017] EWCA Civ 71 at [76], “this court should be wary of stepping in to impose a general duty where Parliament has chosen not to do so”.…”
“…The judge did not have the benefit of this court’s decision in Oakley v South Cambridgeshire District Council [2017] EWCA Civ 71, or the still more recent decision of the Supreme Court in Dover District Council v CPRE Kent [2017] UKSC 79, upholding the Court of Appeal’s decision in that …”