Practice areas
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Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Town Legal LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 May 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 37 · Supreme Court
National planning policy is guidance and a material consideration. It remains subordinate to the statutory development plan. Paragraph 49 of the National…
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143 |
| 28 Apr 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 978 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A local planning authority has a broad discretion whether to take enforcement action. In deciding expediency, it must weigh the advantages and disadvantages of…
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4 |
| 10 Aug 2023 |
[2023] UKSC 30 · Supreme Court
When identifying appropriate alternative development for compulsory-purchase compensation, the statutory cancellation assumption removes the underlying scheme…
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4 |
| 25 Nov 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 3204 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a strategic environmental assessment, the identification and assessment of reasonable alternatives are matters of evaluative judgment for the plan-making…
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3 |
| 8 Oct 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 2631 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a planning challenge involving the National Planning Policy Framework tilted balance, a developer must provide a sound and reliable transport assessment…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 25 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2406 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007, a discontinuance notice may be served where the authority is…
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| 26 Aug 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 319 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For compensation for severance, the primary valuation of retained land is made as at the date of severance. Later events cannot change that valuation, but…
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| 30 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1962 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
At the appropriate-assessment stage under the Habitats Directive and the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017, a competent authority may take…
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| 26 Jun 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 207 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Compensation for compulsory acquisition must reflect the claimant’s position had the land not been taken, including its special value to the owner and business…
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| 24 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 966 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a planning challenge concerning late-night opening, a decision-maker must address the relationship between planning control and a parallel licensing regime…
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| 20 Feb 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 73 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For a certificate of appropriate alternative development, the cancellation assumption does not exclude real-world facts which were unknown at the valuation…
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| 20 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 261 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Where a strategic development allocation requires comprehensive delivery and proportionate contributions towards necessary infrastructure, the absence of an…
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| 18 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2474 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a renewed application for permission to seek judicial review of planning permissions, the court held that a planning authority may rely on detailed…
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| 10 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 861 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a statutory review of a planning decision, the court applies ordinary statutory meaning in context while respecting the decision-maker’s planning judgment.…
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| 31 Oct 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2711 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a challenge to planning permission, the court asks whether the officer’s report, read fairly as a whole, materially misled the committee on an issue bearing…
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| 10 Sep 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2368 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
There is no general rule that alternative development schemes are mandatory material considerations in planning decisions. Alternatives must be explored where…
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| 30 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1986 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Lawful implementation of planning permission requires material operations to be carried out in accordance with the permission and to be more than de minimis.…
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