Bonsall v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Planning control — Breach — Landowner changing use of barn without planning permission — Change deliberately concealed for four years — Enforcement notice issued for breach of planning control — Supreme Court authority establishing statutory four-year limitation period for enforcement action not applying in case of deception — Subsequent enactment of procedure enabling enforcement action outside time limit by obtaining planning enforcement order — Whether time limit applying in cases of deception where no planning enforcement order obtained — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended by Planning and Compensation Act 1991, s 4(1) and Localism Act 2011, s 124(1)), ss 171B, 171BA

[2015] EWCA Civ 1246; [2016] QB 811; [2016] 2 WLR 1407; [2015] WLR (D) 514, CA

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