AC-2025-LON-001100 - [2025] EWHC 2742 (Admin)

Fecha: 24-Oct-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2742 (Admin)

Case No: AC-2025-LON-001100

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

PLANNING COURT

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 24 October 2025

Before :

MRS JUSTICE LANG DBE

Between :

SAVE GREATER MANCHESTER GREEN BELT LIMITED	Claimant
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(1) SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (2) GREATER MANCHESTER COMBINED AUTHORITY (3) BOLTON COUNCIL (4) BURY COUNCIL (5) MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL (6) OLDHAM COUNCIL (7) SALFORD CITY COUNCIL (8) ROCHDALE BOROUGH COUNCIL (9) TAMESIDE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL (10) TRAFFORD COUNCIL (11) WIGAN COUNCIL	Defendants
(1) WAIN ESTATES (CARRINGTON) LIMITED (2) WAIN ESTATES (LAND) LIMITED (3) PEEL L&P INVESTMENTS (NORTH) LIMITED (4) RLUKREF NOMINEES (UK) ONE LIMITED (5) RLUKREF NOMINEES (UK) TWO LIMITED	Interested Parties

Jenny Wigley KC and Charles Bishop (instructed by Leigh Day) for the Claimant

Leon Glenister and Isabella Buono (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the First Defendant

Christopher Katkowski CBE KC and Stephanie Hall (instructed by Manchester City Council Legal Services) for the Second to Eleventh Defendants

Vincent Fraser KC (instructed by Mills & Reeve LLP) for the First and Second Interested Parties

Christopher Young KC and James Corbet Burcher (instructed by Shoosmiths LLP) for the Third Interested Party

The Fourth and Fifth Interested Parties did not appear and were not represented

Hearing dates: 8 & 9 October 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30 am on 24 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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MRS JUSTICE LANG DBE

Mrs Justice Lang :