Unicoin Homes plc has failed in its High Court challenge to the decision of Tandridge District Council refusing planning permission for residential development of the former Geest Warehouse, Station Road, Lingfield, Surrey.
Dismissing the challenge, Deputy Judge Nigel Macleod QC said that the inspector had been entitled to exercise his planning judgment in the way that he did.
Unicoin Homes plc v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Queen’s Bench Division: Crown Office List (Nigel McLeod QC, sitting as a deputy judge of the Division) 10 May 2000.
Anthony Dinkin QC (instructed by Penningtons) appeared for the claimant; David Forsdick (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) appeared for the respondents.
PLS News 10/5/00
