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Watson-Smyth v SoS for the Environment and Cherwell DC

Language: English Series: Journal of Planning and Environment Law ; (1992) JPL 451-457(7)Publication details: 1992Subject(s): Summary: QBD 1 October 1991. On failing to obtain listed building consent to fill in a ha-ha in the grounds of his house, the owner appealed, raising questions about the meaning of curtilage, whether the ha-ha, forming the boundary to the curtilage could be found to be within the curtilage of the listed building and whether a ditch (part of the ha-ha) was a structure or an object.

QBD 1 October 1991. On failing to obtain listed building consent to fill in a ha-ha in the grounds of his house, the owner appealed, raising questions about the meaning of curtilage, whether the ha-ha, forming the boundary to the curtilage could be found to be within the curtilage of the listed building and whether a ditch (part of the ha-ha) was a structure or an object.