Councillor Pete Ruhemann, Chair of Planning made the following statement below about Taylor Wimpey making a legal challenge to the decision made by the Planning Inspector to earmark the majority of the land formerly used as the Elvian School for educational use.
"Members should know that the Council was advised yesterday that Taylor Wimpey had made a legal challenge, equivalent to Judicial Review, to the Inspector’s decision on the Elvian appeal. The challenge is made on a number of grounds, including education use, and it falls to be defended by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, who of course appointed the Inspector, though of course the Council may be called upon to give evidence.
We will have an information report to the next meeting, but I thought members should know what is going on now. This is the first time Reading has been involved in this sort of process, and shows I suppose the determination of the applicant to get his development approved no matter what, which the Committee saw in spades over the summer. I told the Public Inquiry that I saw the application as an attempt to drive a coach and horses through the Council’s planning policies, and will of course work with officers to do all we can to resist this second attempt on the part of Taylor Wimpey to do the same".
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