This week we have been discussing an interesting point of planning law. That of multiple competing planning applications on the same land. This revolves around two pieces of case-law and a well know thought experiment called Schrodinger’s Cat! Case Law First. In Staffordshire County Council v NGR Land Developments Ltd 2002, the Court of Appeal […]
Abandonment is unique in planning law. There are seldom any other provisions within the UK Legal System that allow a person to abandon something however in terms of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 there is provision to abandon a planning use or even previously developed land! An inspector has decided to refuse a […]
Its 1948 and the UK is preparing its first batch of local plans. Each document sets out the council’s vision for this brave new world of development regulation however buried in the heart of each lies a policy which at its heart would lead to stagnation. Moving onto to 2020 and that very same policy […]