[2008] EWHC 1310 (QB) 18 June 2008. Case found that the Commission for the New Towns had not breached exlusivity agreements with a developer (relating to the regeneration of docklands in Middlesborough) and had not acted in bad faith during the lifetime of the agreements. Claimant (C) claimed damages from purported breaches of lock-out or exclusivity agreements from Tees Valley Regeneration Ltd (T) (an urban regeneration body), asserting that T had induced the Commission to breach these agreements. The Commission argued that C had failed to bring its own development proposals to fruition, despite extension of the exclusivity agreements. Held: the defendants had acted in good faith throughout and claims that C had misled T as to the likelihood of entering a development agreement were not supported by documentary evidence. C had remained the preferred developer throughout, as was evinced by their willingness to enter into the initial agreements and to extend them despite the fact that agreements had not been met by T.