Cases - City of London Corporation v Secretary of State for the Environment

Record details

Name

City of London Corporation v Secretary of State for the Environment

Date

(1971)

Citation

23 P&CR 169

Keywords

Planning control

Summary

The appellant had applied for planning permission for the change of use of a warehouse to an employment agency. The local planning authority granted permission on condition that the premises should be used as an employment agency only. This was to prevent the premises being turned into ordinary offices with a dead frontage and the loss of shop floor area in the City of London.

The appellant claimed that a condition could not be imposed to restrict a use which was not development.

The High Court upheld the condition. The statutory power to impose conditions regulating the use of land is not limited to activities that constitute development. So a condition may prohibit uses even though they would not amount to development.