R (Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Planning permission — Conditions — Grant of planning permission for residential development — Condition restricting completion of balance of development until order for stopping up of footpath confirmed or not confirmed — Inspector declining to confirm order as condition not meeting statutory test of necessity — Whether statutory test properly applied — Whether planning condition properly construed — Whether stopping up order “necessary” to implementation of planning permission — Whether decision to be quashed — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8) (as amended by Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No 9 and Consequential Provisions) Order 2006 (SI 2006/1281), art 5(c), Restricted Byways (Application and Consequential Amendment of Provisions) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1177), reg 2, Sch 1(1), para 1, Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c 27), s 12(2)(4)(5) and Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), s 38(2)(3)(a)), ss 257, 259

[2017] EWHC 2259 (Admin); [2017] PTSR 1662; [2017] WLR(D) 614, QBD

PLANNING — Practice — Case management — Observations on identifying and determining preliminary issues — Observations on efficient use of court resources including avoidance of excessively long skeleton arguments or court bundles

[2017] EWHC 2259 (Admin); [2017] PTSR 1662; [2017] WLR(D) 614, QBD

PLANNING — Planning permission — Conditions — Grant of planning permission for residential development — Condition restricting completion of balance of development until order for stopping up of footpath confirmed or not confirmed — Inspector declining to confirm order as condition not meeting statutory test of necessity — Whether statutory test properly applied — Whether planning condition properly construed — Whether stopping up order “necessary” to implementation of planning permission — Whether decision to be quashed — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8) (as amended by Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c 27), s 12(2)(4)(5) and Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), s 38(2)(3)(a)), ss 257, 259

[2018] EWCA Civ 2069; [2019] PTSR 292; [2018] WLR(D) 663, CA

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