Save Greater Manchester Green Belt Ltd v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government & Ors
Save Greater Manchester Green Belt Ltd v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government & Ors [2025] EWHC 2742 (Admin) (24 October 2025)
The High Court dismissed a statutory review challenge to Greater Manchester’s plan, holding the Inspectors lawfully applied the Green Belt “exceptional circumstances” test.
- Statutory review of development plan documents
- Green belt policy
- Exceptional circumstances test
- Interpretation of national planning policy framework
- Judicial review principles in planning context
- Green-belt