Thurrock Borough Council v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

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

Landlord and tenant – Notice to Quit – Common law requirements – Application during ‘registration gap’ – Whether Notice to Quit valid if served by assignee of reversion before registration of transfer

Town and Village Greens – Commons Act 2006, s.15 – Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) (Interim Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007 (SI2007/457), reg.6 – Whether conduct of the registration authority was in breach of natural justice – Whether procedure of independent expert was in error – Whether outcome for applicant would have been substantially different but for that error

Town and Country Planning – Solar farm development – Heritage assets – Listed Buildings Act 1990, s.66 – Legitimate expectations – Proper enquiry into effects of revisions to scheme

Animal Welfare Act 2006, s.8 – Animal fighting – Requirement for animal to be ‘placed with’ another ‘for the purpose of fighting

Commons Act 2006, s.15 – Town or village green – Land held for statutory purposes – Whether use for recreational purposes compatible – Failure by Council to consider incompatibility – Application of Senior Courts Act 1981, s.31(2A)

Proprietary estoppel – Constituent elements: assurance, reliance and detriment – Unconscionability of reversal of assurance – Proportionality of remedy

Constitutional law – Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, art.50 – Sovereignty of Parliament and prerogative powers of the Crown – Whether government entitled to trigger art.50 without Parliamentary approval

Town or village green – Commons Act 2006, s.15 – “Locality” and “neighbourhood” – Geographical spread of users across area – Compatibility of registration with statutory purposes – Use with permission of landowner

Single Payment Scheme – Occupation of eligible land – Council Regulation 73/2009, art.30 – Claimants ‘artificially created’ conditions ‘contrary to objectives’ of Scheme – Whether short-term agreement for occupation acceptable