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and delivery. Targets have been set and missed; waiting lists have grown longer,
and the most vulnerable people in our society have been left with fewer safe,
affordable places to call home. Technology has a key role to play to address this
situation writes Andrew Lloyd of Search Acumen.
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Managing AI Risks in Local Government
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Judge quashes decision by planning inspector over failure to take account of unilateral undertaking by developer
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Judge quashes decision letter over discriminatory impact of housing allocations policy on domestic abuse survivor
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Judge quashes decision of council to end support for former looked after asylum seeker in education whose appeal rights were exhausted
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Judge quashes decision of inspector to grant prior approval for agricultural barn change
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Judge quashes grant of planning permission for watersports hub
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Judge quashes permission for estate redevelopment over breach of equality duty
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Judge quashes permission for extra care development
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Judge quashes permission for outdoor adventure centre over failure to publish draft report from Natural Resources Wales
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Judge quashes permission for polytunnels over failure to consider impact on listed building and ancient woodland
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Judge quashes planning permission for development of former hospital site over appraisal of relocation of 500-year-old tree
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Judge quashes planning permission for residential extension after planning authority decides not to contest claim
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Judge quashes planning permission given in 2014 for lodges and caravans
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Judge quashes planning permission over failure to take into account rebuttal report on right to light
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Judge quashes refusal by planning inspector of application to build garden room
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Judge quashes refusal of consent for Gypsy/Traveller site and remits planning appeal for redetermination
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Judge raps council after 13-year-old boy unlawfully deprived of his liberty for five months
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Judge raps council for “casual and cavalier” approach to risk assessment and decision making in relation to vulnerable teenage girl
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Judge raps council over planning in child protection case
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Judge raps council over unfair dismissal of headteacher
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Judge raps NHS England and mental health trusts over failure to provide medium secure bed for 15-year-old girl
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