Kuljit Bhogal

Kuljit has a growing practice in this area and has advised on a number of planning matters.

Examples of recent work include:

• Advising the Greater London Authority on its Housing Strategy for London
• Enforcement appeals and s.78 appeals
• Experience of developments in the Green Belt
• Advice on statutory appeals to the High Court under s.288
• Disputed lawful development certificates
• Gypsy and traveller issues
• Planning injunctions in the High Court
• Prosecutions in the Magistrates Court and Crown Court

Cases:

R (on the application of Chiltern District Council) v Wren Davis Ltd [2008] EWHC 2164 (Admin)
Costs ordered against local authority who successfully appealed the costs order - there was no unreasonable conduct by the authority It was inappropriate to deprive a local authority of its costs on an appeal against an abatement notice where the local authority had reasonably pursued its statutory duty at public expense and had succeeded in contesting the appeal. The local authority had not acted unreasonably in failing to discuss time limits for compliance with a recipient of the notice where the recipient had not accepted the validity of the notice.

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