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Hearing Objections? Evaluating Energy Planning Procedures in Scotland and Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Keith Clement
Keith Clement
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Planner, Strathclyde University
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Abstract

The planning of major energy facilities in Western Europe has met with increasing opposition in the last 15 years. In Scotland formal objections to such developments are considered in public inquiries; in Germany the equivalent institution is the hearing. These two institutions differ fundamentally in scope and in the means of presenting and examining evidence. The involvement of the courts has been greater in Germany, where lengthy cases examining procedural and substantive issues have developed a new field in legal administration. Developers, objectors and administrators find fault with the planning and legal systems, but outcomes invariably favour the developers. Of the two institutions examined, the British public inquiry offers objectors considerably more scope than does the German hearing.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 81 - 99
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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