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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2127 (Admin)
Case Nos: AC-2025-LON-000913
AC-2025-LON-000915
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING'S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 15 August 2025
Before:
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE CHOUDHURY
Between
MOLE VALLEY DISTRICT COUNCIL | Claimant / Appellant |
- and – | |
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT | First Defendant/ Respondent |
and | |
MARGARET MELONEY | Second Defendant/ Respondent |
Alex Goodman KC & Dr Ashley Bowes (instructed by Mole Valley District Council) for the Claimant / Appellant
Richard Moules KC & Nick Grant (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the First Defendant / Respondent
Stephen Whale (instructed under Public Access) for the Second Defendant /Respondent
Hearing date: 4 June 2025
JUDGMENT
MR JUSTICE CHOUDHURY:
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- Introduction
- Factual Background
- The Decision
- Grounds for seeking review / appeal
- Ground 1 - Misinterpreting Green Belt Policy
- Discussion – Ground 1
- Conclusion – Ground 1
- Ground 2 – Deliverability of sites
- Ground 3 – Failure to consider Examining Inspector’s (“EI’s”) report
- Factual background to Ground 3
- Ground 3 – Submissions
- Discussion – Ground 3
- Conclusions