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Back-door compensation

By: Language: English Series: Property Week ; 73(40) 3 October 2008, 74(1) Publication details: 2008Subject(s): Summary: Summarises the case of Greenweb v London Borough of Wandsworth [2008] EWCA Civ 910, 31 July 2008 (see L145568). Wandsworth local authority taxpayers must fund a £1.6m windfall gain to a developer obtained by invoking obscure statutory planning rules intended for use following wartime destruction of property.

Summarises the case of Greenweb v London Borough of Wandsworth [2008] EWCA Civ 910, 31 July 2008 (see L145568). Wandsworth local authority taxpayers must fund a £1.6m windfall gain to a developer obtained by invoking obscure statutory planning rules intended for use following wartime destruction of property.