“From next month, most families seeking to make better use of their attics will not need to clear it with their local council, under proposals to be put through Parliament.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Greenweb Ltd v Wandsworth London Borough Council
Court of Appeal
“Where a local authority compulsorily purchased a public open space after refusing the landowner’s application for housing development, the Lands Tribunal had to value the land on the basis that planning permission had been granted for the housing development.”
The Times, 28th August 2008
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Greenweb Ltd v Wandsworth London Borough Council; [2008] WLR (D) 286
“On the proper interpretation of ss 14(1) and 15 (3) of the Land Compensation Act 1961 the amount of compensation payable for compulsory acquisition of vacant land on which Victorian houses had stood prior to their destruction during the Second World War should be based on the assumption that planning permission had been granted for specified development even though planning permission for such development had in fact been refused.”
WLR Daily, 5th August 2008
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“Small shops are to be given some protection against competition from out-of-town supermarkets, Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, said. She added that this would help independent shops survive the credit crunch.”
The Independent, 11th July 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Labour’s controversial Planning Bill, which is aimed at speeding up the planning process for big projects such as airports and nuclear power stations, is likely to transform the role of lawyers in the planning process.”
The Lawyer, 7th July 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
R (Lewis) v Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council [2008] EWCA Civ 746; [2008] WLR (D) 216
“Apparent bias or predetermination on the part of a planning authority did not render the grant of planning permission unlawful unless the authority had made its decision with a closed mind.”
WLR Daily, 2nd July 2008
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Court of Appeal
“The loss of their home by a Gypsy family with nowhere else to live was capable in law of being regarded as a very special factor for the purposes of the national guidance issued to local planning authorities and was to be weighed in the balance as between the value society attached to the protection of Gypsy homes against the public value of protecting the Green Belt.”
The Times, 1st July 2008
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“A campaign group opposed to a proposed eco-town in Warwickshire has begun a legal challenge against the government.”
BBC News, 25th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The loss of a gipsy family’s home with no immediate prospect of replacement was capable in law of being regarded as a very special factor within para 3.2 of the Planning Policy Guidance Note 2 issued by the Secretary of State to local planning authorities. It was a factor to be weighed in the balance when considering the value society attached to the protection of gipsy homes against the public value of the protection of the Green Belt.”
WLR Daily, 24th June 2008
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“Ministers have reached an agreement with one of the main Labour rebels over the Planning Bill, undermining a potentially damaging Commons defeat.”
BBC News, 24th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“More than 60 Labour MPs are threatening to derail plans to weaken people’s long-standing right to oppose the building of new nuclear power stations and airport runways in their own ‘backyards’.”
The Independent, 24th June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Gordon Brown faces his most serious Parliamentary revolt this week after a series of polls revealed a further decline in his popularity ahead of his first anniversary as Prime Minister.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teenage boy has been ordered to tear down his treehouse because he doesn’t have planning permission for it.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Environmental groups are campaigning against planning laws they claim will lead to ‘faceless bureaucrats’ taking decisions on major projects.”
BBC News, 9th June 2008
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“An illegal landbanking scheme which sold plots of land to investors with the promise of big profits has had its assets frozen following action by the City watchdog.”
The Guardian, 4th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman was threatened with a fine by her local council for putting posters on lampposts to find the owners of a lost cat. Public-spirited Joy Tracey wanted to reunite Copper the ginger tom with his owners after he was found whimpering in a garden.”
The Guardian, 24th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In holding that there were material considerations that warranted a departure from the claimant’s statutory development plan under s 38 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, the inspector appointed by the first defendant had made a material error of fact amounting to an error in law when he granted planning permission under s 174(2)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to the second defendant for the unauthorised use for education, training and worship of a unit in premises within an area designated by the claimant in its development plan as a ‘defined employment area industrial location’.”
WLR Daily, 10th May 2008
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“Mr Fidler, 59, built a mock-Tudor castle, complete with ramparts and cannons, on his farm in Salfords, Surrey in 2000. Because it was on green-belt land and unlikely to get planning permission, he concealed it behind a 40ft stack of hay bales, covered with a blue tarpaulin. He, his wife Linda, 39, and son, Harry, seven, moved in and in August 2006 he removed the hay bales and revealed their castle.”
The Independent, 10th May 2008
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Goodall v Peak District National Park Authority; [2008] WLR (D) 99
“The 28 day time limit for appealing against an enforcement notice prescribed by s174(3) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 was not incompatible with the right to a fair trial guaranteed by art 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 9th April 2008
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