The Public and Third Sector Law Reports
[2025] PTSR 526
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— Judicial review claim challenging local planning authority’s approval for discharge of pre-commencement conditions attached to planning permission— Developer carrying out material operations in reliance on discharge approval— Local planning authority granting permission to vary pre-commencement conditions— Discharge approval subsequently quashed— Whether quashing of discharge approval having retrospective effect— Whether planning permission expiring without lawful commencement of works— Whether variation of conditions unlawful—
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s 73