Cases - Don v Secretary of State for the Environment and Manchester City Council

Record details

Name

Don v Secretary of State for the Environment and Manchester City Council

Date

(1994)

Citation

NPC 18

Keywords

Planning and consents - CPO

Summary

This case involved an allegation of bad faith. It was alleged that an acquiring authority had made a CPO against the applicant's land in order to protect its own market. On the particular facts of this case, the Court found that the history of the relationship between the applicant and the Council gave rise to suspicions over the motives of the Council, which were more than a mere assertion. Consequently, this matter should have been addressed by the Inspector in his report. The CPO was quashed in its application to the applicant's land.