‘Can the police charge a football club for match day policing on public land immediately outside a stadium, where that land is largely under the control of the club? No, the Court of Appeal re-affirmed in Ipswich Town Football Club v Chief Constable of Suffolk [2017] EWCA Civ 1484.’
UK Police Law Blog, 13th November 2017
Source: ukpolicelawblog.com
‘In his previous article of 26th July 2017 Steven discussed the potential benefits of obtaining borough-wide Injunctions preventing anyone entering green spaces with vehicles, (most commonly mobile homes and caravans) and then fly-tipping industrial scale waste. This article deals with the fact that it is becoming increasingly clear that, where one local authority obtains protection in the form of a borough-wide injunction to prevent incursions onto its green spaces, a neighbouring borough becomes vulnerable to an increase in incursions.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 19th October 2017
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
‘There are few local authorities in the country that haven’t experienced the enormous difficulties inherent in people setting up camp illegally in local parks and green spaces with their mobile homes and caravans, horses and dogs then leaving the area (voluntarily or otherwise) and landing the authority with an expensive bill for cleaning up.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 26th July 2017
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
‘The case concerns claims under s15 Commons Act (2006) for town and village greens and the scope for applicants to amend a defective application under Regulation 5(4) of the Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) (Interim Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007 (‘the 2007 Regulations’), so that it is duly made. This can be crucial (as in this case) in determining whether an application has been made within the period of grace allowable under the Commons Act, or is effectively time barred.’
Tanfield Chambers, 21st July 2017
Source: www.tanfieldchambers.co.uk
‘A tribunal has overturned the listing of an allotment site in Lancashire as an asset of community value (ACV), on the grounds that nearby housing development makes it “highly unrealistic” that the site will ever be used as allotments again.’
OUT-LAW.com, 11th April 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The London Borough of Ealing has successfully defended its decision-making in the latest round of litigation over the proposed siting of training facilities for football club Queen’s Park Rangers on metropolitan open land (MOL).’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th March 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court has upheld the registration of Humpty Hill in Oxfordshire as a town or village green (TVG), despite arguments that most of the walking that took place on the land was because it was a public right of way.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th November 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A county council has successfully defended in the High Court its decision to register 14 acres as a town and village green (TVG).’
Local Government Lawyer, 31st October 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘it is one of the most ancient surviving commoners’ rights in England, thought to date at least to the Norman conquest if not before. But the custom of allowing sheep to roam freely in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire is set to be criminalised in one village, in the latest manifestation of controversial new antisocial behaviour laws nicknamed the “busybodies’ charter”.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th August 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The importance of giving reasons for a decision to register land as a village or town green under Section 15 of the Commons Act 2006 has been emphasized by Gilbart J in R (NHS Property Services Ltd) v Surrey County Council (2016) EWHC 1715 (Admin), in which NHS Property Services Ltd (“NHS”) sought judicial review of a decision by the County Council to register a parcel of woodland (“the land”) as a village green. The case is also of importance in relation to the question whether there is a statutory incompatibility with registration.’
Local Government Law, 20th July 2016
‘A county council has failed in a High Court challenge to an inspector’s decision to register part of land near a primary school as a village green.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th June 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A county council has successfully defended in the Court of Appeal its decision to refuse an application to register rights of common under the Commons Act 2006.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th May 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A parish council has won a High Court challenge over a local authority’s refusal to register land in its area as a village green.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st March 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘“Litigation is a hazardous and expensive business.”
Thus began the skeleton argument of my opponent in the Paddico case which I refer to below. He was (and remains) a leading counsel with a high reputation in the field of property work and he was, of course, correct.’
Park Square Barristers, 11th August 2015
Source: www.parksquarebarristers.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has recently upheld a judicial review challenge by a campaigner over an inspector’s refusal of an application to register land in Exeter as a town green, it has been reported.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th September 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Regina (Littlejohns and another) v Devon County Council [2015] EWHC 730 (Admin); [2015] WLR (D) 136
‘The transitional provisions in Schedule 3 to the Commons Act 2006 provided a brief window within which the commons register could be updated and corrected by incorporating any registrations which could have been, but were not, made under the Commons Registration Act 1965. Thereafter, any unregistered rights would be extinguished under paragraph 3 to the Schedule, repeating the legislative approach adopted in section 1(2)(b) of the 1965 Act.’
WLR Daily, 24th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘An area of foreshore which lay within the operational land of a harbour was not registrable as a town or village green pursuant to section 15 of the Commons Act 2006 because the byelaws applicable to the harbour had impliedly authorised it use for bathing and associated recreational activities, and so such use had not been “as of right”, and in any event section 15 did not apply where the statutory purposes for which such land was held were incompatible with such registration.’
WLR Daily, 25th February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court, 25th February 2015
‘The Queen (on the application of Newhaven Port and Properties Limited) v East Sussex County Council and Newhaven Town Council [2015] SC 7 25 February 2015.
Late February is not necessarily the best time of year for a bit of UK sea swimming. But the Supreme Court has just come out with interesting judgments about whether there is a right to go to the beach and swim from it. For reasons I shall explain, they were anxious not to decide the point, but there are some strong hints, particularly in the judgment of Lord Carnwath as to what the right answer is, though some hesitation as to how to arrive at that answer.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th February 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘County Councils in England, District Councils in England for an area without a County Council, London Borough Councils and County or County Borough Councils in Wales are “commons registration authorities”. The commons registration authority in relation to any land is the authority in whose area the land is situated. Where any land falls within the area of two or more commons registration authorities, the authorities may by agreement provide for one of them to be the commons registration authority in relation to the whole of the land.’
Local Government Law, 17th November 2014
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