Lewes DC v SoS Environment & Chaucer Estates Ltd & Peacehaven Valley Owners Ltd

Lewes DC v SoS Environment & Chaucer Estates Ltd & Peacehaven Valley Owners Ltd - 1998 - Journal of Planning and Environment Law [1998] JPL 1093-1101(9) .

QBD 3 April 1998. Application for outline planning permission for residential development - application refused - application to quash that decision - prematurity given emerging Local Plan - application of PPG1 paragraph 47 - failure of SoS to properly consider the prematurity issue - failure to take into account material considerations - application allowed.