Category: Legal
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Happy holidays from Ladywood Unite + 2025 next steps
Ladywood Unite – 2024 reflections and plans for 2025 Thank you A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported Ladywood Unite this year. We deeply appreciate every door you knocked on, email you sent, complaint you submitted, protest you joined, petition you signed, meeting you attended, blog you contributed, survey you took, press interview you…
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Questions for the council: Community charter – another survey
BCC invited further feedback on the draft of the Community Charter. While the newsletter sent on August 28 referred to the survey, council officers in contact with Ladywood Unite have failed to mention the survey in their communications. This omission is a serious shortcoming. The survey will close on December 2. You can fill the…
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Questions for the council – a matter of human rights
Further scrutiny and evaluation of the council’s human rights considerations is needed There is a substantial lack of clarity and explanation about why BCC “decided that, on balance, it is in the general public interest and of benefit to the community to make the CPO [compulsory purchase order] over and above the interest of the…
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Questions for the council: Not much about equality
We have serious concerns about the quality of the Equality Analysis in the 2023 Cabinet Report. The 2010 Equality Act, section 149, 1(b) states that: “1. A public authority must, in the exercise of its functions, have due regard to the need to: b) advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a relevant protected…
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Donate to fund Ladywood Regeneration legal challenges
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/ladywood-regeneration-judicial Ladywood Regeneration – Legal Challenges In June 2023, Birmingham City Council issued plans for mass compulsory purchase and large scale demolition in a Ladywood region containing around 2,000 homes, businesses, and places of worship, partnering with a luxury developer called Berkeley Group – St Joseph. Hundreds of people have been locked out of meetings about the regeneration and residents ignored on repeated occasions as the council pushes…
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Judicial review outcome
The judicial review that we submitted challenging the lack of consultation and use of a single bidder process was refused. Our first reflection is that there is clearly a difference between what is legal versus what should be legal. It should not be legal to draw a line around an area with homes, businesses and…
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Questions for the council: what happened to democracy?
The regeneration has been consistently characterised by a democratic deficit since its very early stages in 2019 and 2020, when residents witnessed a general breakdown of democratic representation and BCC’s failure to fulfil its duty consult ahead of the bidding process In June 2019, Ladywood councillors issued a first leaflet pledging their commitment to help…
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Questions for the council: Sole bidding. Isn’t Ladywood entitled to best practices?
Sole bidding is not best practice The bidding process as it is described in the 2023 Cabinet Report largely reflects articles 40.1 and 40.2 of the 2015 Public Contracts Regulations. Article 40.1 enables contracting authorities to “conduct market consultations with a view to preparing the procurement and informing economic operators of their procurement plans and…
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Response from legal advice clinic
Thank you to everyone who submitted questions for the free legal advice clinic from the University of Birmingham. Their letter of response is below.
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Government guides to Compulsory Purchase Orders
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/compulsory-purchase-and-compensation-guide-4-compensation-to-residential-owners-and-occupiers https://www.ricsfirms.com/helplines/ https://www.ricsfirms.com/residential/legal-issues/compulsory-purchase/rics-consumer-guide-compulsory-purchase/
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