Queen’s Bench Divisional Court

Town and Country Planning Act 1971–Enforcement notice–Alleged tipping of unauthorised materials in quarry–Permission in 1950 to tip subject to local authority’s surveyor approving materials to be deposited–No materials prescribed by…

A planning condition requiring the authority’s previous written approval of the ‘type and treatment’ of the materials to be used by a developer does not operate to allow service of…

Enforcement notice–Planning unit–Forty-four garages originally purpose-built for owners’ taxi-cab fleet–Unit is each garage, not the block–Further point on landlords’ inability to control tenants’ actions–‘Structure of enforcement provisions of Town and…

Quarry site–Former council refuse tip–Secretary of State entitled to find use for that purpose abandoned despite unchallenged evidence as to sporadic depositing in intervening period–Further filling correctly held to constitute…

Enforcement notice–Established use for general industrial purposes held to cover only a building on owner’s land124 and not the open ground surrounding this–Notice based on intensification of light industrial use…

Magistrates entitled to ignore negative evidence of tithe map and find that a lane to be made up by the council was already a public road–Case a ‘very close thing,’…

Town and Country Planning Act 1971–Application to quash grant of planning permission–Caravan Site Act 1968–Proposed gipsy caravan site–Complaint of lack of consultation–No obligation to carry out formal consultations–Application dismissed

Three enforcement notices prohibiting use of adjacent pieces of land for sale of caravans–Use for that purpose found established on two pieces of land, but third notice upheld–Owner claims that…

Outline planning permission for development of 22-acre industrial site granted in 1952–Construction of various buildings contemplated, and at various stages–Separate buildings in fact constructed by a number of independent owners…

Permission for Luton cash-and-carry warehouse refused on appeal because of the possible impact on council’s project for central shopping area–Secretary of State did not need evidence on which to base…