Balco Transport Services Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment (No 2)

Subject Matter

TOWN PLANNING — Purchase notice — Refusal of planning permission — Land rendered incapable of reasonably beneficial use by previous landowner's breach of planning control — Breach proceedings no longer capable of enforcement — Whether breach of planning control to be disregarded in deciding whether land capable of reasonably beneficial use in existing state — Whether subsequent landowner entitled to compel council to acquire land — Town and Country Planning Act 1971, s 180(1)

[1986] 1 WLR 88