Save Bray Community Group

The first part of our Judicial Review against An Coimisiún Pleanála's (ACP) grant of permission to Ballymore for their Blocks A and B has been heard in the High Court. It centred around whether or not Ballymore were a day late in submitting an application for a pre-planning meeting for that phase under the Strategic Housing Development (SHO) scheme, consequent on the interpretation of the words used in that Act.
Judge Humphries seemed to accept our barrister's interpretation during the arguments, but later decided to refer it to the Attorney General's office for advice. In addition, Ballymore's barrister wanted to argue 'a collateral attack' was caused by the case being taken after a decision was made, and that it should have been taken when the pre-planning meeting was accepted by ACP: the problem with that is pre-planning meetings are not publicly advertised, so we didn't know one was taking place at the time.
How could we challenge it?
His second contention is 'prejudice' to Ballymore if we win the case as it will, he claims, cause them a lot of damage. As they have already gotten permission for Block A again, anyway, through the back door of a Dun Laoghair Rathdown application, and have announced their intention to apply to Wicklow for Block B, we're not at all sure who is the victim of prejudice here... The hearing on these two issues is scheduled for July 6.