R v SoS Defence ex p Wilkins and others
R v SoS Defence ex p Wilkins and others
- 2000
- Estates Gazette [2000] 40 EG 180-186(7) .
QBD 19 June 2000. RAF Kemble was created on 520 acres of land acquired compulsorily, over a 20-year period from the late 1930s. In 1999 the SoS informed the former owners of the airfield (R) that there had been a material change of character of the land within the meaning of r9 of the Crichel Down Rules, and that nothing under r14(7) required the respondent to offer the land to the former owners. R challenged the decision. Held, application dismissed. Rule 9 had been correctly interpreted.
CRICHEL DOWN RULES
AIRFIELD
R V SOS DEFENCE EX P WILKINS AND OTHERS
MATERIAL CHANGE
QBD 19 June 2000. RAF Kemble was created on 520 acres of land acquired compulsorily, over a 20-year period from the late 1930s. In 1999 the SoS informed the former owners of the airfield (R) that there had been a material change of character of the land within the meaning of r9 of the Crichel Down Rules, and that nothing under r14(7) required the respondent to offer the land to the former owners. R challenged the decision. Held, application dismissed. Rule 9 had been correctly interpreted.
CRICHEL DOWN RULES
AIRFIELD
R V SOS DEFENCE EX P WILKINS AND OTHERS
MATERIAL CHANGE