Time Limits
Time Limits
- 1999
- Estates Gazette Case Summaries [1999] EGCS 146(1) .
Riordan Communications Ltd v South Buckinhamshire District Council. QBD 2 December 1999. The claimants (R) were granted planning permission for a development which was subject to a time limit of five years. Work started just before the deadline, however it was then suspended and did not resume for four years. The work then stopped again and the defendant (SB) claimed that the planning permission had lapsed because R lacked the intention to complete the development. "Held" claim allowed.
PLANNING PERMISSION
TIME LIMITS
RIORDAN COMMUNICATIONS LTD V SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE DC
DEVELOPMENT
INTENTION
Riordan Communications Ltd v South Buckinhamshire District Council. QBD 2 December 1999. The claimants (R) were granted planning permission for a development which was subject to a time limit of five years. Work started just before the deadline, however it was then suspended and did not resume for four years. The work then stopped again and the defendant (SB) claimed that the planning permission had lapsed because R lacked the intention to complete the development. "Held" claim allowed.
PLANNING PERMISSION
TIME LIMITS
RIORDAN COMMUNICATIONS LTD V SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE DC
DEVELOPMENT
INTENTION