Court of Appeal

Allotment gardening — Allotments Act 1925 — Meaning of ‘adequate provision’ in section 8 — Whether alternative allotment to be equal or commensurate in fitness to allotment from which plotholders…

Listed building — Urgent works of repair to unoccupied building — Local planning authority carrying out works in default — Recovery of expenditure — Whether account demanding payment proper notice…

Planning condition — Requirement in permission for change of use to remove part of building — Whether inspector adequately considered lawfulness of condition — Whether judge entitled to consider justification…

Material considerations — Conservation area — Statutory duty of decision-maker — Recommendations of local plan inspector concerning open space — Whether a material consideration — Whether knowledge of Secretary of…

War damaged buildings — Proposed rebuilding — Application for determination whether an application for planning permission required — Permitted development under the General Development Order — Land free of buildings…

Enforcement notices — Structure plan policy on caravans for ‘gipsies’ — Meaning of ‘gipsies’ — Caravan Sites Act 1968 — Winter quarters for travelling showmen — Whether within ‘travelling showmen’…

Statutory nuisance — Abatement — Staircase — Tenancy — Whether steep internal staircase statutory nuisance — Whether prejudicial to health — Whether abatement notice served on landlord should have been…

Planning agreement — Obligations more restrictive than condition and contrary to advice in Circular 1/85 — Whether the council’s purpose in requiring the agreement rendered it unlawful

Dwellinghouse — Owner keeping 44 dogs — Enforcement notice — Whether material change of use — Whether use incidental to enjoyment of dwellinghouse as such — Whether reasonable to normal…

Possession — RSC Ord 113 — Trespassers — Protesters against development — Whether licensees having contractual rights to ‘occupy’ land entitled to possession under Ord 113

Planning applications — Listed building consent application — Validity of applications — Whether planning authority sole arbiter for determining such validity — Whether Secretary of State entitled to hear appeal…

Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 — Whether use as solicitors office for visiting members of public falls within Class A2 or Class B1 — Whether change of…