In this edition of our Public Law Podcast series, Nusrat Zar and Jasveer Randhawa are joined by Lord Charles Banner KC, who is a leading authority in planning, environmental, and public law, with a focus on infrastructure and energy developments.
We discuss Lord Banner's review into the planning and delivery of nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs), which was commissioned by the previous Conservative Government. The review examines the causes of legal challenges against the NSIP regime through judicial reviews of Development Consent Orders. It explores whether these challenges unduly delay NSIPs and how such delays might be resolved. The conversation also addresses the balance between ensuring access to justice and the timely delivery of infrastructure projects that offer significant public benefits and support the energy transition.
"For every infrastructure or planning case that goes up the queue, unless they suddenly find the money for more judges, something else is going to go down the queue."
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