[2025] EWHC 2646 (Admin)

Claim No: AC-2025-LON-001918

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

IN THE MATTER OF AN APPEAL UNDER SECTION 289 OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

B E T W E E N:

SOUTH DARENTH FARMS AND COLD STORE COMPANY LIMITED

Applicant

-and-

(1) THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HOUSING, 

COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

(2) DARTFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL

(3) HAWKSPARE LIMITED

Respondents

ROBIN GREEN (instructed by Clarke Wilmott LLP) for the Appellant

HEATHER SARGENT (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the First Respondent

Hearing date: 14 October 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 16 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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