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Once the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/392, which permitted local authority meetings to be held remotely (in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic), ceased to apply, such meetings had to take place at a single, specified geographical location; attending a meeting at such a location meant physically going to it; and being ‘present’ at such a meeting ...

By Joey Gardiner 2021-04-30T09:23:00+01:00 Legal challenge by planners designed to avoid hiatus in decision-making fails Virtual planning committee meetings are to cease from May 6 after a judge ruled that existing legislation dating back to the 1970s is not sufficient to give virtual meetings legal status. Planning groups hit out at the news, with the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) branding it a “hugely retrograde step”. Virtual meetings have been allowed under emergency corona...