Planning consent — Retail warehouse — Conditions — Whether local planning authority misconstrued planning obligation — Whether planning permissions should be quashed — Application granted
Development — Grant of planning permission — Suspicion of bias — Whether notice of planning application defective — Whether evidence of bias by chairman of planning committee — Application allowed
Development — Planning policy guidance — Town centre — Material considerations — Planning permission granted to build retail store — Application for judicial review — Whether defendant local authority entitled…
Development — Grant of planning permission for commercial development — Claimants applying to quash decision — Applications to strike out claims — Whether claimants persons aggrieved — Whether claims having…
Development — Flood plain — Local development plan — Inspector’s approach –Whether inspector required to take account of existing flood defences — Application granted
Development — Refusal of permission — Adequacy of reasons — Proposal for extension to floor space — Overtrading — Quantitative and qualitative need — Failure to accept inspector’s recommendations –…
Quarries Minerals — Mining permission — Conditions — Whether claimant entitled to reopen dormant quarries in accordance with original planning permission — Claim dismissed
Development — Local plan policy — Material considerations — Whether inspector misunderstanding effect of national planning policy — Whether inspector’s decision perverse — Application dismissed
Residential development — Certificate of lawfulness — Construction of planning permissions — Whether permissions permitting proposed development — Whether development restricted to one house per plot — Claim dismissed
Change of use — Enforcement notice — Farm — Mixed agricultural and horse livery use — Whether livery use integral part of agricultural use — Whether functional need for dwelling…
Listed building — Development — Local authority — Members of conservation advisory committee also on planning committee — Whether dual membership giving rise to appearance of bias — Whether planning…
An article published in the Estates Gazette on 31 January 2004 examined the position of the Crown in relation to planning law.