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FALL RIVER:<\/strong> A community group from Fall River who sought a judicial review of the Ingram Drive development is considering an appeal of the recent decision by a judge to dismiss their court challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That comes after Justice Ann Smith, who heard arguments on the controversial development ruled the group had not filed their court challenge in the time period they should have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In November 2024, the group known as the Stop Proposed Development Amendments for Ingram Drive, Fall River Village asked for a review by N.S. Supreme court of the provincial government\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns raised by the group included a lack of emergency egress and a CN railway passing through the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n David Nunn was the primary applicant in the judicial review request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He told CBC N.S. that the judge dismissed the case because their group had filed the challenge after the required 25-day window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The development, known as Opportunity Site C, was turned down by HRM council in 2022. However, the provincial government, under then Municipal Affairs Minister John Lohr, designated it as a Special Planning Area in Feb. 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That allowed the province to trump the municipality\u2019s decision and have it go ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”236″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Aug. 2024, Lohr announced the province had approved a development agreement with Perry Lake Developments for three multi-unit buildings at the site, creating about 120 housing units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nunn told CBC N.S.\u2014and had said to a community meeting The Laker News covered\u2014that the Fall River project does not fit most of the province’s criteria for special planning areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the group is considering an appeal of the judge’s decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”188″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”235″] [adrotate banner=”127″] FALL RIVER: A community group from Fall River who sought a judicial review of the Ingram Drive development is considering an appeal of the recent decision by a judge to dismiss their court challenge. That comes after Justice Ann Smith, who heard arguments on the controversial development ruled the group had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[2,39,2732,7904,48,1077,7972,7905,5048],"class_list":["post-53101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fall-river","tag-ingram-drive","tag-john-lohr","tag-judicial-review","tag-n-s","tag-nova-scotia","tag-opportunity-site-c","tag-perry-lake-development","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}