R (Badger Trust) v Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

National Planning Policy Framework – Local Plan – Assessment of housing needs – Need for “two-step” approach to assessment – Green Belt allocation – Need for “exceptional circumstances” to justify change of designation

Town and Country Planning – Green Belt – Whether balance of considerations of inappropriate development in Green Belt should take into account matters not affecting the Green Belt but otherwise relevant for planning purposes

Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s.171A – Material change of use – Whether intensification alone can amount to material change of use

Town and Country Planning – Planning Policy Guidance Note 2: Green Belts – Use of land for paintballing and livery – “Inappropriate development”
On appeal from [2012] EWHC 2909 (Admin)

Electricity Act 1989 – Statutory wayleave – Valuation of compensation – Land subject to conditional sale contract – Whether compensation payable by reference to sale price or to open market value at date of wayleave

Town and Country Planning – Erection of wind turbine in Green Belt – “Very special considerations” to override presumption against development – Effect of classification of matters as “Non-material Planning Issues” – Exercise of discretion not to quash permission

Wimbledon and Putney Commons Act 1871, ss.34 et seq. – Whether decision to permit works to modify access over the Commons ultra vires – Interpretation of powers of Conservators

Town and Country Planning – National Planning Policy Framework – Appropriateness of development of mineral extraction in the Green Belt – Meaning of “mineral extraction”

Right of way – Abandonment – Whether partial abandonment is possible as a matter of law