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01/11/09 : Labour: Kennet Meadows: PRUPIM out of time for Judicial Review! :
Fears that developers PRUPIM might have taken the Department of Communities and Local Government to Judicial Review over the Government's decision to cut their scheme at Kennet Valley Park out of the South-East Plan have not been realised, says Labour candidate for Reading West Naz Sarkar, as they have now missed the deadline for a court challenge.
"Labour Ministers over-ruled a recommendation from the panel who did the Examination In Public on the South-East Plan to include 7,500 houses on Kennet Meadows," Naz says. "This decision, which followed a major local campaign led by Martin Salter MP, was unprecedented, and there were strong rumours that PRUPIM would take the Government to the High Court to have it ruled unlawful. While I don't think they would have succeeded, I am of course delighted that yet another threat to Kennet Meadows has been turned away."
Naz, who has campaigned alongside Minster and Southcote Councillors and candidates for Kennet Meadows to be made into a trust in order to protect it into the future, says "I hope this means that PRUPIM are beginning to realise that their Kennet Valley Park is not a goer, and that they will agree to talks with Reading and West Berkshire Councils about keeping this precious green wedge for the long term."
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