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035			_a(Sirsi) u16275
041			_aeng
245			_aVolvox Establishment v SoS for the Environment and Doncaster MBC
260			_c1988
350			_a0
490			_aJournal of Planning and Environment Law _v(1988) JPL 400-403(4)
520			_aQBD 19 October 1987. Application to quash decision of SoS who refused planning permission for a residential development . At issue was whether the land should be kept open, or whether it could be released for building. In assessing the balance between housing demand and supply, the SoS, in his decision letter, followed a mathematical formula laid down in DoE Circular 30/85 . Para 1.17 of the circular deals with housing land requirements and states that once the time period of the structure plan provisions for housing had expired "...the 5-year housing land requirement should be taken as 5 times the average annual housebuilding rate in the period covered by approved structure plan housing policies". The developers contended that the paragraph`s guidance was ambiguous. It was not clear whether it referred to the annual housebuilding rate actually achieved, or that predicted in the structure plan. Held, that SoS`s decision letter was insufficiently clear as to the mathematical calculati
650			_aCENTRE 21 LTD V SOS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND ANOTHER
650			_aDONCASTER
690			_aPLANNING LAW AND PRACTICE-CASE LAW
942			_n0
948			_c04/03/1997
999			_c10697 _d10697