R (Tesco Stores Ltd) v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Development — Local authority’s development plan — Sequential test to retail development selection required — Central development preferred — Proposal for out of town food store — Objection that two sites sequentially preferable under policy could accommodate similar food stores — Planning permission granted — Whether local authority applying correct test for available site when applying sequential test — National Planning Policy Framework (2021), para 87

[2025] EWCA Civ 610; [2025] PTSR 1877; [2025] WLR(D) 253, CA

PLANNING — Development — Retail development — Sequential test — Interested party seeking planning permission for food store on site outside town centre — Claimant objecting on basis two “sequentially preferable” alternative sites available — Local planning authority granting planning permission after concluding alternative sites not “available” since committed to other retailers — Whether alternative sites “available” — Whether planning authority properly applying sequential test — National Planning Policy Framework (2021), para 87

[2025] EWCA Civ 610; [2025] PTSR 1877; [2025] WLR(D) 253, CA

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