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High Court, in judicial review proceedings, grants an order quashing a decision of a local authority to suspend the applicants' application for housing provision, and ordering it to reconsider, on the grounds that: the impugned decision does not provide sufficient information to enable the applicants to know why it was reached; and the reasoning behind the conclusions reached by the respondent is not sufficiently clear as to enable the applicants to understand why the respondent came to the decision it reached.
Judicial review - suspension of applicants' housing application by local authority - applicant argues that respondent failed to give sufficient reasoning to support its decision and unlawfully fettered its discretion and failed to consider the proportionality of its decision and took an erroneous view – decision made to review two previous decisions – fresh decision and not a repetition of previous decisions – open to challenge – respondent claims it cannot accept the length of time this matter took to come to its attention as mitigation but failed to give a reason why – failed to give reasons why it did not consider this delay unfairly disadvantaging to the applicant - also failed to give reasons behind why it considered a charge for drug possession being struck out as mitigation – insufficient reasons give and thus order quashed and matter remitted to the respondent for reconsideration.
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