Judicial Review In To Futurist Decision Refused – Yorkshire Coast Radio

The High Court in Leeds has refused Permission for a Judicial Review of the Borough Councils decision to demolish the Futurist Theatre.

The save the futurist campaign group has started legal action against the council seeking a review of the decision which was take in January but the high court dismissed the action on Friday afternoon.

The Save the futurist group say they will be speaking to their legal team next week in light of the decision.

Councillor Janet Jefferson, who has been heavily involved in the campaign to save the building, gave us her reaction today's judgement.

The save the Futurist group issued legal proceedings against Scarborough Borough Council on On 7th April 2017seeking permission to judicially review its decisions of 9th January and 17th January 2017 to demolish Scarboroughs Futurist Theatre.

In order to take the legal actionThe Save The Futurist group was required to become a legal entity and reformed as Save The Futurist Theatre (Scarborough) Ltd.

The group engaged solicitors, Squire Patton Boggs LLP of Leeds to work on the action together with a leading London public law QC. A fund raising campaign was started to help fund the legal action.

Speaking in May,Debi Silver from Save the Futurist explained why they were taking the action.

"The reason we're taking legal action against Scarborough Borough Council is because we're not happy with how the whole thing has been dealt with.

At the end of the day, we don't feel what they've done has been done correctly and it's left us with no other option.

I can't tell you the amount of work that's gone into bringing this case forward, presenting it to our solicitors.

This is a huge undertaking that's gone on, it's not been done lightly.

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