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Town & country planning

24 March 2017
Issue: 7739 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Dartford Borough Council v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and others [2017] EWCA Civ 141, [2017] All ER (D) 118 (Mar)

The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from the local planning authority against the grant of planning permission for a change of use of land to a private gypsy and traveller caravan site comprising one mobile home and one touring caravan on the basis that the land in question was “previously developed land” under the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Such an interpretation accorded with the clear words of the NPPF.

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