| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2001] All ER (D) 291 (Dec) |
| Court: | Administrative Court |
| Judge: | James Goudie QC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court |
| Representation | Charles George QC and James Pereira (instructed by TLT) for the claimant. |
| Paul Brown (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the defendant. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 19 December 2001 |
Catchwords
Town and country planning - Permission for development - Refusal - Appeal - Claimant seeking to construct development on brown field site in green belt - Local authority refusing permission - Secretary of State's planning inspector dismissing claimant's appeal - Inspector concluding prospect of significant reoccupation of land unlikely - Whether inspector in error.
The Case
The Secretary of State's planning inspector had been entitled to dismiss an appeal against a local planning authority's refusal to grant planning permission for a development in circumstances where he had concluded that the scheme had no clear advantages which outweighed the harm which the development would cause.
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