Egan v Basildon Borough Council

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Planning control — Breach — Travellers occupying land in breach of planning control — Local authority proposing to enter land and take steps to remedy breaches identified in enforcement notices — Travellers seeking injunction to restrain local authority from entering land — Whether local authority having power to demolish buildings or structures not mentioned in enforcement notice — Extent of power to carry out enabling works or to take steps incidental to statutory power — Whether injunction to be granted — Local Government Act 1972, s 111(1) — Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s 178(1) (as substituted by Planning and Compensation Act 1991, s 7(1))

[2011] EWHC 2416 (QB); [2012] PTSR 1117; [2011] WLR (D) 280, QBD