Cases - Pyx Granite Co Ltd v Ministry of Housing and Local Government

Record details

Name
Pyx Granite Co Ltd v Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Date
[1958]
Citation
1 AII ER 625
Keywords
Planning control
Summary

Lord Denning said:

'Although the planning authorities are given very wide powers to impose "such conditions as they think fit", nevertheless the law says that those conditions, to be valid, must fairly and reasonably relate to the permitted development. The planning authority are not at liberty to use their powers for an ulterior object, however desirable that object may seem to them to be in the public interest.'

So conditions governing the crushing and screening of stone on land near a quarry would be valid as they were in connection with the development.