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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2278 (Admin)
Case No: AC-2024-LON-002558
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING’S BENCH DIVISION
PLANNING COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 05/09/2025
Before:
MR. TIM SMITH
(sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge)
Between:
THE KING (ON THE APPLICATION OF ANDREW RICKARDS) | Claimant |
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EAST HERTFORDSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL - and – VLADYSLAV PETRYK | Defendant Interested Party |
Mr Wayne Beglan (instructed by Holmes & Hills LLP)for the Claimant
Ms Claire Nevin (instructed by Sharpe Pritchard LLP) for the Defendant
The Interested Party did not appear and was not represented.
Hearing date: 10th June 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.00am on 05/09/2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
MR TIM SMITH (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge):
Introduction
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- Introduction
- Background Facts
- These Proceedings
- Ground 1 - unlawful conclusion that the agricultural unit in question was at least 5 hectares
- Defendant’s submissions
- Ground 2 - failure to require sufficient information to allow a lawful decision on the application to be made
- Defendant’s submissions
- Ground 3: failure to take account of the potential impact of the development on the Bayford Wood ancient woodland
- Defendant’s submissions
- Ground 4: failure to take account of the potential impact of the development on the setting of the Claimant’s listed building
- Defendant’s submissions
- Discussion and conclusions
- Ground 2
- Grounds 3 and 4
- Aarhus costs protection
- Conclusions