R (Lisle-Mainwaring) v Isleworth Crown Court

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Notice — Power to require proper maintenance of land — Planning authority serving notice on owner on basis that choice of painting scheme harming amenity — Whether proper to use notice to alter lawful painting scheme where complaint not of lack of maintenance or disrepair but of aesthetics — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s 215

[2017] EWHC 904 (Admin); [2017] PTSR 850; [2017] WLR (D) 289, QBD

PLANNING — Power to require proper maintenance of land — Notice — Planning authority serving notice requiring owner to repaint building on basis choice of painting scheme harming amenity — Building owner appealing — Whether permissible use of notice to alter lawful painting scheme where complaint not of lack of maintenance or disrepair but of aesthetics — Whether condition of land resulting in ordinary course of events from lawful use of land — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), ss 215, 217(1)(a)(b) — Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 1995 (SI 1995/418), arts 3, 4, Sch 2, Pt 2, Class C

[2017] EWHC 904 (Admin); [2017] PTSR 850; [2017] WLR (D) 289, QBD