The WLR Daily case summaries
[2024] WLR(D) 413
King’s Bench Division
Rex (Friends of the West Oxfordshire Cotswolds) v West Oxfordshire District Council
[2024] EWHC 2291 (Admin)
2024 Jan 16, 18; Sept 6
Morris J
Planning— Development— Planning permission— Developer carrying out material operations relying on local planning authority’s approval of discharge of conditions attached to planning permission— Discharge approval under legal challenge— Local planning authority granting permission to vary conditions subject to discharge approval— Discharge approval subsequently quashed— Claimant challenging lawfulness of permission to vary conditions— Whether planning permission expiring without lawful commencement of works— Whether quashing of discharge approval having retrospective effect— Whether material operations in breach of conditions rendering commencement invalid— Whether original planning permission capable of being fallback development not requiring further grant of planning permission—
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s 73