Managing environmental issues in planning decisions is now an essential part of the process. The increasing pressure to develop brownfield sites and the publicity around the damage caused by air pollution are just two of the drivers for this growing area of planning practice.
Thoroughly revised 3rd edition has been fully updated to explain the new law and procedures in force from June 2017 including substantially re-written chapter on domestic violence, more detailed information on international aspects of children and finance issues and a fully updated finance chapter.
In April 2021, the convictions of 39 former Subpostmasters for theft and false accounting were quashed. In total over 700 people had been wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office using evidence from an unreliable IT system. This is the story of their 20 year fight to clear their names in the face of institutional arrogance and obstruction.
The Great Post Office Scandal is the story of how these innocent people had their lives ruined by a once-loved national institution and how, against overwhelming odds, they fought back to clear their names.