A Bridlington businessman has failed in his High Court challenge to a refusal of planning permission for a caravan park in the grounds of his leisure complex.
Deputy Judge Rich QC has held that a planning inspector was correct to back the refusal of planning permission by East Riding of Yorkshire Council for use of James Robinson’s land as a touring caravan site.
Robinson developed the Grade II listed building, Marton Hall, in Marton, Sewerby, Bridlington, into a complex featuring a function room, a restaurant, a bistro and a swimming pool. He claimed that, since the majority of the land was used as grazing, the inspector had been wrong to find that it formed an integral part of parkland around the listed building, and that its development as a caravan site would impinge on the landscape.
He argued that the misdescription amounted to a material error of fact that could have affected the outcome of the inspector’s decision.
However, the judge has rejected his challenge, finding that the inspector’s description of the site was not inconsistent with a description for use as grazing.
In January, Mr Robinson failed in a separate High Court challenge to the making of a tree preservation order, which protects some 10,000 trees in the woods surrounding the Hall’s 35 acre grounds.
Robinson v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and another Queens Bench Division (Deputy Judge Rich QC) 11 September 2002.
The claimant appeared in person; James Strachan (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) appeared for the defendant.
PLS News 12/9/02
