Hearings
England & Wales
21 Apr 2010 [2010] EWHC 810 (Ch), Ch D (Judge Behrens)
20 Dec 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 1438; [2011] Ch 363; [2011] 2 WLR 1010; [2011] LGR 331, CA (Arden, Sullivan, Tomlinson LJJ)
17 May 2012 (appn dis) [2012] 1 WLR 1912, SC(E)
Leeds Group plc v Leeds City Council
Additional names
Subject Matter
COMMONS — Town or village green — Registration — Application for registration of land as town or village green — Owner of part of land objecting to registration — Registration authority holding non-statutory public inquiry — Inspector recommending registration on basis of use by inhabitants of two “neighbourhoods” — Registration authority accepting recommendation and registering land as town or village green — Whether “neighbourhood” capable of meaning two or more neighbourhoods — Whether land registrable as town or village green on basis of user by inhabitants of more than one neighbourhood — Commons Registration Act 1965, s 22(1A) (as inserted by Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, s 98(3))
Appellate History
Leeds Group plc v Leeds City Council [2010] EWHC 810 (Ch), Ch D
Decision of Judge Behrens sitting as a judge of the Chancery Division affirmed
Leeds Group plc v Leeds City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 1438; [2011] Ch 363; [2011] 2 WLR 1010; [2011] LGR 331, CA