The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 1 WLR 4337
King’s Bench Division
*Rex (Parkes) v Dorset Council
[2024] EWHC 1253 (Admin)
2024 Feb 27, 28, 29; May 23
Holgate J
Planning— Development— Planning permission— Barge accommodating asylum seekers moored in harbour below mean low water mark— Whether sea bed above which barge moored subject to planning control— Whether within local planning authority’s area— Whether constituting “land”— Whether statute to be interpreted purposively or compatibly with European Union law so as to subject sea bed to planning control—
Local Government Act 1972 (c 70), s 72
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Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s 336(1)
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Parliament and Council Directive 2011/92/EU, art 2(1)