One obstacle to timely delivery of schemes is the threat of judicial review — a favoured tool in the box of those opposing large regeneration projects, notably those carried out in partnership with the public sector. The government has recognised this and will introduce changes this summer designed to speed up the process and obstruct frivolous court applications.

(Reuters) - A tweet by an MP's wife that pointed her 60,000 Twitter followers to online traffic wrongly identifying a retired politician as a paedophile was defamatory, a London court heard on Tuesday.