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Council mounts legal challenge after inspector refuses to endorse Local Plan
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Council mulls shutting down wholly-owned company that cannot service debts
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Council nets order banning visits to student house after complaints about parties
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Council nets permission for High Court challenge to decision by inspector over Local Plan and duty to cooperate
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Council not liable for actions of third parties on children in its care, Supreme Court rules
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Council obtains injunction to secure affordable housing provision on development site
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Council offers to plant trees equivalent to legal costs if protesters end action
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Council overturns allotment change-of-use ban at CoA
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Council pays landlord to house tenant he was seeking to evict
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Council planning board removes clause from s106 agreement restricting future occupants from bringing claims over noise after receiving advice move was unlawful
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Council possession claim rejected after it dismissed long-term homosexual partner of tenant as friend in succession case
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Council pursues injunction to stop developers selling more houses on major scheme, over failure to provide facilities set out in s106 agreement
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Council rapped after homeless family left to live in hotel rooms for three years
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Council rapped for delays while homeless family left in crowded conditions
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Council rapped over failure to properly carry out financial assessment following Ombudsman investigation
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Council rapped over treatment of pregnant woman who was made homeless
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