Our Agriculture Team has been involved in a number of high-profile cases in this area. Highlights include:
- Successfully applying for statutory review of a planning inspector’s decision in an enforcement notice appeal relating to mobile homes which was quashed by the High Court. The Secretary of State was ordered to pay the client’s costs amounting to around 90% of their total costs
- Providing strategic legal advice to a client resubmitting a proposed major application regarding an anaerobic digestion plant in a Metropolitan Green Belt and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- Advising the owners of a 250KW wind turbine – granted consent but built in an alternative location. Destined for the High Court, this case involves advising on regularising the wind turbine’s position, and encompasses issues including non-material and material amendment applications
- Advising on a prosecution for breach of an enforcement notice, securing the local authority’s withdrawal of the prosecution case and a defendant’s costs order
- Reviewing a planning consent for a residential scheme applied for by Fleming and Others and successfully securing a Protective Costs Order against Wiltshire Council and Oaksey Park Limited
- Successfully defending Fuller & McVeigh against proceedings brought by Milton Keynes Council, and obtaining a costs award
- Successfully appealing two planning enforcement notices issued by Wiltshire Council relating to the conversion of a redundant farm building into residential buildings
- Securing a Protective Costs order for a resident’s group as part of a planning consent for a residential scheme