Gypsies
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South Bucks District Council v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and another
Second respondent gypsy unlawfully occupying green-belt land — Gypsy suffering from chronic ill health — Whether ill health constituting “very special circumstances” so as to override planning constraints — Appeal…
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Chichester District Council v First Secretary of State and others
Gypsy caravans — Enforcement notices — Whether development contrary to planning policies aimed at protecting countryside — Whether enforcement notices constituting unjustifiable interference with gypsies’ Article 8 rights — Whether…
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Wrexham County Borough Council v National Assembly for Wales and others
Respondent gypsies ceasing to travel due to ill health — Whether “nomadic way of life” an essential component of gypsy status for planning purposes — Appeal allowed
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South Bucks District Council v Porter; Wrexham County Borough Council v Berry; Chichester District Council v Searle and others
Gypsies — Injunction to restrain breach of planning control — Proportionality — Section 187B of Town and Country Planning Act 1990 — Appeals dismissed
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Revenue asks House of Lords to consider £700m dispute
Gypsies — Injunctions — Correct approach of courts on application by local planning authority for injunction restraining breach of planning control — Whether proportionality to be considered — Section 187B…
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Bennett v Copeland Borough Council
Appellant owning sole property purchased for investment purposes — Appellant leading nomadic lifestyle — Whether appellant “resident” of property for the purposes of section 6(2)(a) of Local Government Finance Act…
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R (on the application of Price) v Carmarthenshire County Council
Defendants under duty to offer claimant accommodation under Part VII of Housing Act 1996 — Defendants offering settled accommodation — Claimant refusing on ground that settled accommodation was anathema to…
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Clarke-Gowan v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and another
Claimant living in caravan — Travelling away for work in second caravan — Inspector concluding claimant not a gypsy for purposes of granting planning permission — Application under section 288…
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O’Connor v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and another
Definition of “gypsy” — Nomadic lifestyle — Claimant refusing permission for gypsy caravan site — Inspector finding claimant no longer a gypsy because no longer nomadic — Whether cessation of…
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Wrexham County Borough Council v National Assembly for Wales and others
Gypsies — Definition — Nomadic lifestyle — Inspector allowing appeal against refusal of planning permission for gypsy caravan site — Claimant council arguing that occupants of caravan no longer gypsies…
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R (on the application of Smith) v Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council and another
Gypsy caravan sites — Security of tenure — Whether absence of security of tenure on local authority gypsy sites incompatible with human rights legislation — Part I of Caravan Sites…
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Webb v Secretary of State for the Environment and another
Unauthorised development — Caravan parked as residential development — Special landscape area — Whether protected area — Whether structure plan up to date in light of changes in law in…