Couple fined £2,000 for hedge infringement – The Independent
“A couple have been fined £2,000 for allowing their garden hedges to grow too tall.”
The Independent, 26th August 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Category: planning
Government to introduce new powers over traveller sites – BBC News
“A number of changes to tackle illegal gypsy and traveller sites are to be introduced, the government has said.”
BBC News, 24th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Den Brook wind turbine challenge rejected by High Court – BBC News
“The latest legal challenge against plans for a wind farm in Devon has been rejected by the High Court.”
BBC News, 19th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Health & Safety Executive v Wolverhampton City Council and another – WLR Daily
“A material consideration for a local planning authority when deciding whether to revoke or modify the grant of planning permission under s 97 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 was the authority’s liability to pay compensation under s 107 of the Act.”
WLR Daily, 4th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Mageean v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and others – WLR Daily
Mageean v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and others [2010] WLR (D) 209
“The validity of a screening direction made by the Secretary of State under reg 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 is not limited to two years but a planning inspector should refer the matter back to the Secretary of State where there has been a change of circumstance which could affect the decision.”
WLR Daily, 28th July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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People in rural villages to be allowed to build on green belt without planning permission – Daily Telegraph
“People living in rural communities will be able to give themselves the right to build on local green belt land without planning permission, under plans to be unveiled today.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court rejects challenge to cycle hire station – The Independent
“The High Court today rejected a bid to bring a legal challenge over London Mayor Boris Johnson’s flagship cycle hire scheme.”
The Independent, 12th July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Villagers’ fury after High Court rules ‘travellers can build toilets on green belt land’ – Daily Telegraph
“Villagers who formed a human barricade to stop travellers building a caravan site near their homes have suffered a further blow after the High Court granted permission for diggers to be brought on to the land.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Prince of Wales intervention in Chelsea Barracks ‘unwelcome’ says judge – Daily Telegraph
“The Candy Brothers have won their High Court bid to prove Qatari architects were wrong to withdraw plans for the redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks following an intervention by the Prince of Wales.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th June 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina (Morge) v Hampshire County Council – WLR Daily
Regina (Morge) v Hampshire County Council [2010] EWCA Civ 608; [2010] WLR (D) 145
“A planning authority considering a development ostensibly affecting the species or habitat of a European Protected Species covered by the Habitats Directive was to have due regard to the requirements of the Directive, which could involve questions as to indirect, as well as direct, impact upon the species, and also deterioration or destruction of their breeding or resting place.”
WLR Daily, 11th June 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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‘Healthy’ school wins battle against local takeaway – Daily Telegraph
“A school with a ‘healthy eating’ policy has won its High Court battle to prevent a fast food takeaway being set up nearby.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th June 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Injunction over Meriden travellers’ site – BBC News
“A High Court injunction has been won by a council to stop travellers building on land they own in a village.”
BBC News, 21st May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R (Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd) v Wolverhampton City Council – WLR Daily
R (Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd) v Wolverhampton City Council [2010] UKSC 20; [2010] WLR (D) 123
“A planning authority, in considering the exercise of its compulsory purchase powers in relation to one site, was not entitled to take into account a commitment by a developer to secure the redevelopment of another unconnected site.”
WLR Daily, 13th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Millionaire wins battle to build eco home on own island – The Independent
“A millionaire has won a fight with planners to build a luxury eco-home on his own south coast island.”
The Independent, 29th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Legal challenge to farmer’s green scheme in Talgarth – BBC News
“A national park has launched a legal challenge against the Welsh Assembly Government after it said a green energy plant could be built on a farm.”
BBC News, 8th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Supreme court preserves Coatham Common from housebuilding – The Guardian
“Britain’s highest court today overturned a series of rulings and backed a campaign to save an undeveloped oasis on industrial Teesside as a village green.”
The Guardian, 3rd March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Fidler v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another – WLR Daily
“Where the construction of an house without planning permission had been concealed by the erection of straw bales and a tarpaulin which had been left in place for over four years after the completion of the house, so that the local planning authority did not become aware of the house until after expiry of that four-year period, the totality of building operations originally contemplated and intended to be carried out by the builder included the erection and removal of the straw bales, with the result that construction had not been substantially completed until the bales had been removed and the four-year period for enforcement had not begun to run until that date.”
WLR Daily, 15th February 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Farmer loses fight to save home he hid behind hay bales – The Guardian
“A Englishman’s house may be his castle – but it stills needs to have planning permission, a farmer learned the hard way today.”
The Guardian, 3rd February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another – WLR Daily
“Where planning permission had been granted for the erection of a building for storing agricultural products but the building after erection had been used only as a single dwellinghouse, there had been a change of use of the building to that of a dwellinghouse for the purposes of s 171B(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and accordingly no enforcement action could be taken after the expiry of a 4–year period.”
WLR Daily, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
