The WLR Daily case summaries
[2025] WLR(D) 253
Court of Appeal
Rex (Tesco Stores Ltd) v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and another
[2025] EWCA Civ 610
2025 Feb 18;
May 9
May 9
Sir Keith Lindblom SPT, Baker, Lewis LJJ
Planning— Development— Local authority’s development plan— Sequential test to retail development selection required— Central development preferred— Proposal for out of town food store— Objection that two sites sequentially preferable under policy could accommodate similar food stores— Planning permission granted— Whether local authority applying correct test for available site when applying sequential test—
National Planning Policy Framework (2021), para 87