Southern Water Authority v Nature Conservancy Council
Southern Water Authority v Nature Conservancy Council
- 1992
- All England Law Reports 1992 3 All ER 481-489(9) .
HL 16 July 1992. Upheld the QBD decision that the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 s28 was not directed at an owner or occupier of part of land within a site of special scientific interest when the occupier was carrying out specified works on some other part of the SSSI not owned or occupied by him. Therefore, as the water authority was entering the land only for a short time to carry out the prescribed operation of draining a ditch, he was therefore not the owner according to the terms of s28 of the 1981 Act.
DAMAGE
ENGLISH NATURE
ISLE OF WIGHT
LAND DRAINAGE ACT 1991
NATURE CONSERVANCY COUNCIL
SITES OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST
WATER AUTHORITIES
WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981 S28
HL 16 July 1992. Upheld the QBD decision that the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 s28 was not directed at an owner or occupier of part of land within a site of special scientific interest when the occupier was carrying out specified works on some other part of the SSSI not owned or occupied by him. Therefore, as the water authority was entering the land only for a short time to carry out the prescribed operation of draining a ditch, he was therefore not the owner according to the terms of s28 of the 1981 Act.
DAMAGE
ENGLISH NATURE
ISLE OF WIGHT
LAND DRAINAGE ACT 1991
NATURE CONSERVANCY COUNCIL
SITES OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST
WATER AUTHORITIES
WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981 S28