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  • Enforcement in planning control

    15 May 2009

    Enforcement cases that pre-date the reforms introduced by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 should be used with care. 'I would suggest considerable caution before applying statements from...

  • Determining planning applications

    14 May 2009

    Town and Country Planning Act 1990, section 70(2) 'In dealing with an application for planning permission, the authority shall have regard to the provisions of the development plan,...

Summary
Providing clear summaries of the core planning control cases, both recent and established, this section is written with the busy surveyor in mind. For both residential and commercial cases the section seeks to draw out the implications of planning cases on surveyors' day-to-day practice.

This section is maintained by Richard Smith, a principle lecturer in law at Sheffield Hallam University.