R (Friends of the West Oxfordshire Cotswolds) v West Oxfordshire District Council

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Development — Planning permission — Judicial review claim challenging local planning authority’s approval for discharge of pre-commencement conditions attached to planning permission — Developer carrying out material operations in reliance on discharge approval — Local planning authority granting permission to vary pre-commencement conditions — Discharge approval subsequently quashed — Whether quashing of discharge approval having retrospective effect — Whether planning permission expiring without lawful commencement of works — Whether variation of conditions unlawful — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s 73

[2024] EWHC 2291 (Admin); [2025] PTSR 526; [2024] WLR(D) 413, KBD

Commentary

Local Government Lawyer
Claimant group wins judicial review over retrospective effect of quashing of pre-commencement condition discharge Case comment