Scottish Planning Law

HC Deb 17 July 2001 vol 372 c154W

Mr. Joyce

To ask the Advocate-General what effect the recent ECHR challenges have had on Scottish planning law. [2605]

The Advocate-General for Scotland

Scottish planning law is a matter for the Scottish Ministers. However, a number of cases have arisen in Scotland in which there have been challenges on Convention rights grounds and these have been intimated to me as raising devolution issues under the Scottish Act. I have intervened in four such cases to date. The appeal in the first of these cases to be heard, County Properties v the Scottish Ministers and the Advocate-General, has now been completed and a judgment is expected shortly.