Key legal question
Whether the neighbors were entitled to raise the child-safety objection as a new fact on appeal
Extracted holding
The objection could not be rejected as an inadmissible new allegation, because the container’s special operating mechanism only became apparent from the lower appeal decision.
Extracted reasoning
The safety risk was not evident from the permit file or the municipal decision; the burden lay on the project proponent to submit the relevant information. The cantonal court therefore applied § 52(2) VRG arbitrarily and denied formal justice.