A legal challenge to Gravesend’s multi-million pound Heritage Quarter redevelopment scheme will be heard at the end of October.
Civic group Urban Gravesham has taken Gravesham Council to the High Court over its decision to grant planning permission for the £120 million redevelopment of the Eastern and Western Quarters and St Andrew’s Gardens.
The judicial review hearing will take place on October 30 and 31, after Mr Justice Lewis ruled there were grounds to consider whether to send the application back to the council’s Regulatory Report.
It will be debated whether the decision to rubber-stamp the application in May should have been referred back to the board and not taken by a council officer, and if any changes in circumstances between that decision and the contentious vote in April last year are significant.
An Urban Gravesham spokesman said: “This is a battle for the very soul of Gravesend.
“Is the future vision of our town to retain its distinctive Thames riverside character or is it to become the high rise, high density future slum for a transient population?”
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