Another court battle could be looming in a long-running saga over plans for hundreds of new flats on the Newcastle Quayside.
Last month, a judge quashed a Government planning inspector’s decision to allow a controversial development on the vacant Plot 12 site to go ahead. Developers want to build 289 apartments on the land, one of the last empty patches left on the Quayside, but have been embroiled in a row with city council officials and neighbours.
Opponents of the scheme have labelled the 14-storey housing block "monolithic" and "painfully poor", with major concerns that it would block views to and from the historic St Ann’s Church behind it. Despite the High Court ruling in the objector’s favour in November, applicants Packaged Living and Robertson Property have not yet given up their fight – and are now trying to launch a new challenge against that verdict in the Court of Appeal.
