Contentious Issues


Please click on an item for further details.


Yorkshire Dales National Park reinstates quashed TRO - update July 2010
Park Authority reverses legal setback on Traffic Regulation Orders

All identified evidence must be copied - June 2010
Applicants cannot select for copying purposes items of the evidence identified as being those which they "wish to adduce"

Making good applications with no identified evidence/list/date/signature - update March 2010
Defective BOAT claims - Maroudas appeal tightens the Winchester screw

Public Nuisance destroys BOAT arguments - February 2010
BOAT arguments founder due to aggressive off-roading

Scale of Application Maps - update February 2010
Round One to GLPG in Buckinghamshire; Round Two non-event

List of Streets Exemption - October 2009
What is a valid List of Streets under the NERC Act?

Pre 1930 rights – claims in the Lake District - update June 2009
Cumbria BOAT claims - Pre 1930 rights on major passes?

The Winchester Case - update June 2009
Update notes on R (oao Winchester College and Humphrey Feeds Ltd) v Hampshire CC and SoSEFRA

Authority’s application to itself - May 2009
Nottinghamshire County Council faces both ways on Winchester

Enforcement difficulties - update May 2009

Inspectors’ Practices - February 2009
Guiding the Planning Inspectorate

Interpretation of legal points individually by inspectors - January 2009
An inspector introduces and wrongly decides a NERC Act point without reference to the parties

The 5-year mpv Main Lawful User Test - update August 2008
Interpretation evolves

Inspector Powers - June 2008
Inspector powers as to NERC Act exemption

Copies of documentary evidence - June 2008
What is a copy?

Unfinished earlier claims - February 2008
Must claims have been “outstanding” at May 2006 to gain exemption?

BOAT Cul-de-Sacs
West Berkshire’s initiative on cul-de-sac signs