> Leading Planning Cases (2nd ed) 2025

Leading Planning Cases (2nd ed) 2025

02 Mar 2025

Publisher

Incorporated Council of Law Reporting

Richard Ground KC collaborated with the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) in the development of Leading Planning Cases, an important reference book designed to assist the Planning Court by consolidating cases that are frequently cited in planning claims.

This new edition contains 21 cases, spanning from Cooke J’s decision in Stringer v Minister of Housing and Local Government [1970] 1 WLR 1281 through to the Supreme Court’s recent judgment in R (Finch) v Surrey County Council [2024] PTSR 988.

“This book gathers together the key cases which establish the core legal principles to apply in legal challenges to planning decisions. The book has updated from the first edition of 2019. In many cases, practitioners will not need to go beyond these cases in order to identify the principles to be applied by the judge hearing a Planning Court claim. Arrangements have been made so that judges hearing cases in the Planning Court will normally have access to the book, so that these cases will not need to be copied into bundles of authorities. Use of this book will also ensure that the court has cited to it the preferred reports of these cases, in accordance with Practice Direction (Citation of Authorities) [2012] 1 WLR 780.”

The Hon Mr Justice Mould, Planning Liaison Judge of the Planning Court

Cases featured

Stringer v Minister of Housing and Local Government [1970] 1 WLR 1281, Cooke J
Westminster City Council v Great Portland Estates plc [1985] AC 661, HL(E)
Simplex GE (Holdings) Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment [2017] PTSR 1041, CA
Save Britain’s Heritage v Number 1 Poultry Ltd [1991] 1 WLR 153, HL(E)
City of Edinburgh Council v Secretary of State for Scotland [1997] 1 WLR 1447, HL(Sc)
E v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] QB 1044, CA
South Bucks District Council v Porter (No 2) [2004] 1 WLR 1953 HL(E)
R (Morge) v Hampshire County Council [2011] 1 WLR 268, SC(E)
Tesco Stores Ltd v Dundee City Council (Asda Stores Ltd intervening) [2012] PTSR 983, SC(Sc)
Mordue v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2016] 1 WLR 2682, CA
BDW Trading Ltd (trading as David Wilson Homes (Central, Mercia and West Midlands)) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2017] PTSR 1337, CA
Suffolk Coastal District Council v Hopkins Homes Ltd [2017] WLR 1865, SC(E)
R (Mansell) v Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council [2019] PTSR 1452, CA
St Modwen Developments Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2018] PTSR 746, CA
Baroness Cumberlege of Newick v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2018] PTSR 2063, CA
Lambeth London Borough Council v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2019] 1 WLR 4317, SC(E)
R (Wright) v Forest of Dean District Council [2019] 1 WLR 6562, SC(E)
CPRE Kent v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2021] 1 WLR 4168, SC(E)
Hillside Parks Ltd v Snowdonia National Park Authority [2022] 1 WLR 5077, SC(E)
DB Symmetry Ltd v Swindon Borough Council [2023] 1 WLR 198, SC(E)
R (Finch) v Surrey County Council [2024] PTSR 988, SC(E)

Who is this book for?

Leading Planning Cases is likely to be of value to anyone with an interest in planning law and was specifically designed for use by planning law practitioners when in court.