R (Forest of Dean (Friends of the Earth)) v Forest of Dean DC

Habitats Directive – Special Area of Conservation – Whether effect of potential subsequent development must be considered in respect of applications for the first of a series of proposals

Town and Country Planning – Renewable energy – Application of Core Strategy policies – Need for site visit as precursor to decision

Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Chapter I, Part VIII – Tree Preservation Orders and Tree Replacement Notices – Woodland circumstances – Calculation of number of trees affected – Meaning of ‘tree’

Claim to beneficial property ownership held in sole name – Requirements to establish common intention – Basis of challenge to judge’s findings on evidence

Collapse of wall between adjoining properties – Existence and extent of easement of support – “Measured duty of care” between adjoining owners – Order to contribute to cost of unspecified engineering solution – Interpretation of order

Core Strategy Local Plan – Compliance of policy with Strategic Environmental Directive – Whether regulations require consideration of alternative proposals before adoption of policy – Exercise of court’s discretion to quash non-compliant policy

Inclosure Consolidation Act 1801 – Powers of commissioner to set out and appoint both public and private rights of way – Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, s.53 – Amendment of definitive map and statement to include rights appointed under an inclosure award but not recorded

Environment Act 1995, s.108 – Entry into residential premises under powers – Whether entry lawful without required notice – Statutory interpretation – Extent of courts’ powers to rectify obvious error