White v South Derbyshire District Council

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Caravan site — Licence — Authority issuing invalid site licence — Licence transferred to defendants following their acquisition of land — Authority prosecuting defendants for not having valid site licence — Whether authority able to rely on own unlawful act to found prosecution — Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (as amended by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, s 1(3), Sch 3, para 10), ss 1, 3 — Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s 191

[2012] EWHC 3495 (Admin); [2013] PTSR 536; [2012] WLR (D) 374, DC