The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[2007] QB 801
Court of Appeal
Regina (Wilson) v Wychavon District Council and another
[2007] EWCA Civ 52
2006 Nov 20,
21;
2007 Feb 6
2007 Feb 6
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Moses and Richards LJJ
Planning
— Planning control
— Breach
— Gipsies to cease using own land for stationing caravans and human habitation
— Local authority issuing stop notices
— Stop notice provision applying to use of residential caravans but exempting dwelling houses
— Indirect discrimination against gipsies and Irish travellers
— Whether differential treatment justified
— Whether statutory provision incompatible with Convention right
—
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s. 183(4) (as substituted by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c 34), s. 9)
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 4, Sch. 1, Pt I, art 14
Statute
— Construction
— Hansard
— Decisions on compatibility of legislation with Human Rights Convention
— Whether permissible to seek assistance from reports of parliamentary debates