Court of Appeal

Planning permission and listed building consent — Improvements to opera house — Development included offices — Departure from development plan — Material considerations — Financing opera or financing opera house…

Business park — Application for planning permission dismissed on appeal — Contemporary modification to structure plan suggesting business park in locality — Proposed development in advance of local plan consideration…

Town and Country Planning General Development Order — Class VI permitted development — Agricultural development — Erection of silage clamp on one unit — Erection of barn on second unit…

Planning permission granted subject to conditions — Building not to be used, occupied or let otherwise than as five separate units — Inspector refusing to discharge condition — Whether successor…

Compulsory purchase — Compensation — Certificate of appropriate alternative development under s17 of Land Compensation Act 1961 — Issue estoppel — Whether evidence can be adduced to show that conclusions…

Town and country planning — Enforcement notices — Alleged material change of use to hostels — Previous appeal allowed by inspector — Material circumstances had not changed — Whether principle…

Planning appeal dismissed by inspector — Appellant had no reasonable prospects of obtaining rights of access — Whether inspector should have considered Grampian conditions — Whether condition reasonable if no…

Environmental assessment — ‘Old mining permission’ — Registration of old mining permission — Determination of conditions — Whether environmental statement required in connection with determination of conditions — Whether Council…

Planning permission for minerals extraction — Condition requiring scheme of working to be agreed by local planning authority — Permission subject to time-limit — Approval of scheme of working delayed…

Planning permission — Construction — Whether permissible to construe application

Permitted development — Agricultural building — Barn with cavity brick walls, windows and rooflights — Enforcement notice requiring removal — Whether building reasonably necessary for purposes of agriculture — Whether…

Enforcement notice — Material change of use — Inspector quashed notice — Alleged breach of planning control incorrect — Failure to comply with a condition appropriate — Findings of fact…