The Weekly Law Reports
[2003] 2 WLR 1547
House of Lords
South Bucks District Council v Porter and another
Chichester District Council v Searle and others
Wrexham County Borough Council
v
Berry
[2003] UKHL 26
2003 April 7,
8,
9;
May 22
May 22
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Steyn, Lord Clyde, Lord Hutton and Lord Scott of Foscote
Planning
— Planning control
— Breach
— Local authority's application for injunction
— Gipsies occupying mobile homes on own land in breach of planning control
— Whether court obliged to consider likely effect of injunction and any penalties for infringement on gipsies' right to respect for home and family life
— Whether environmental considerations outweighing gipsies' human rights
—
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s. 187B (as inserted by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c 34), s. 3)
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 6(1), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 8