Court of Appeal

Caravan Sites Act 1968 — Gipsy sites — Enforcement notice required use of land to cease for the siting of caravans and as a residential site — Breach of enforcement…

Enforcement notice — Appeal to High Court against decision of Secretary of State — 28-day time-limit — Whether grounds to extend — Long and inexcusable delay — Not outweighed by…

Negligence — Statutory and/or common law duties of care — Duty not to create nuisance — Planning and statutory nuisance legislation — Whether cause of action for breach of duties…

Planning inquiry — Evidence — Witness — Commercial agreement made by company relating to land — Undertakings by directors of company to support planning applications for redevelopment by other party…

Conditions — Planning application for housing development — Proposed access over land owned by local planning authority — Inspector recommending grant of permission subject to section 52 agreement — Council…

Compensation for the acquisition of land — Certificate of appropriate alternative development — Relevant date for identifying policies — Whether date of entry or date of making of compulsory purchase…

Planning application — Committee reversing decision to grant planning permission — Claim of misfeasance in public office — Allegation of malice — Whether statement of claim disclosed cause of action…

Subregional shopping centre — Outline planning permission granted by Secretary of State — High Court challenge — Appeal against failure to quash decision — Changes in circumstances — Whether Secretary…

Planning permission — Environmental impact assessment — Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988 — Council directive 85/337 — Whether Secretary of State required to give reasons…

Council Directive 85/337/EEC — Environmental impact assessment — Old mining permission — Deemed conditions — Directive not transposed — Whether deeming provisions rendered ineffective by community law

Clinical waste incinerator — Environmental impact of emissions to the atmosphere — Challenge to decision of Secretary of State to grant planning permission on appeal — Extent to which responsibility…

Enforcement notices — Mansi doctrine — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 — Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 — Whether inspector required to amend enforcement notice…