Planning – Necessary degree of permanence of buildings – Green Belt – Whether effect on openness has a bearing on inappropriateness of development

Town and country planning – Permitted development – Temporary clay pigeon shoot on agricultural land – Whether amounting to a permanent change of use – Material consideration

Town and Country Planning – National Planning Policy Framework, para.109 – “Valued landscape” – Whether inspector’s decision vitiated for misinterpretation

Green Belt – Temporary permission for traveller accommodation – Perceived failures to apply tests correctly – Need to consider decision letter as a whole and not to take words and phrases in isolation

Town and Country Planning – Open space – Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, s.38(6) – Conflict of policies within the development plan – Habitats Directive – Derogation from requirements on grounds of public interest – Material considerations

Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s.288 – Appeal against refusal of consent – Basis upon which a decision letter must be read and judged

Town and Country Planning – National Planning Policy Framework, para.64 – Whether permission should be refused because a better proposal may be put forward – Whether Inspector failed to apply policy correctly – Whether Inspector acted unfairly

Town and Country Planning – Special Area of Conservation – Environmental Impact Assessment – Effect on heritage assets – Effect of involvement of a director of a potential partner of the applicants on the decision to grant permission

Town and Country Planning – Green Belt development – Whether the lapse of Green Belt policy relaxed controls on development – Justification of basis for Secretary of State’s failure to accept Inspector’s recommendations

Town and Country Planning – Large scale dairy unit – Balance of interest between heritage assets and economic benefits – Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, s.66(1) – Irrationality of decision – Failure to give reasons

Wind turbine development – Listed buildings – Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, s.66 – Desirability of preserving asset and setting – Comparative weight to be given – Relationship of general planning policy to listed buildings – Adequacy of reasons for Inspector’s decision

Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 – Permitted development for agricultural purposes – Whether prior approval of detail required – Failure to take into account material considerations – Failure to give reasons

Land Compensation Act 1961 – Section 17 Certificate of Appropriate Alternative Development (‘CAAD’) – Appeal by the Secretary of State against determination by the Upper Tribunal – were CAAD applications or decisions in relation to other sites notional applications for planning permission and material planning considerations that needed to be taken into account? – Appeal dismissed

National Planning Policy Framework – Paragraph 49 of the NPPF – Interpretation of what is meant by a relevant policy for housing – Legal status of the NPPF – Relationship of NPPF and the local development plan

Environmental impact assessments – Planning permission – Scotland – Wind farms – Wind turbines – Assessment of effect on environment –  Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017