Keeping planning consents alive
Keeping planning consents alive
- 1990
- Property Law Bulletin 10(9) March 1990, 66-70(2) .
Discusses Hillingdon LBC v SoS for the Environment (WB2605-55) where planning consent was granted for development of a hotel . Following the approval of reserved matters the consent only had a life of two years. The only work undertaken by the deadline was removal of an embankment and top soil. The council considered this was not enough to implement the consent and issued an enforcement notice . It was held in favour of the developers on the grounds that the work amounted to a specified operation under Town and Country Planning Act 1971 s43 .
IMPLEMENTATION
Discusses Hillingdon LBC v SoS for the Environment (WB2605-55) where planning consent was granted for development of a hotel . Following the approval of reserved matters the consent only had a life of two years. The only work undertaken by the deadline was removal of an embankment and top soil. The council considered this was not enough to implement the consent and issued an enforcement notice . It was held in favour of the developers on the grounds that the work amounted to a specified operation under Town and Country Planning Act 1971 s43 .
IMPLEMENTATION