King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court

KB-2025-002908 - [2025] EWHC 2937 (KB)

Fecha: 11-Nov-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2937 (KB)

Case No: KB-2025-002908

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING'S BENCH DIVISION

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 11/11/2025

Before :

MR JUSTICE MOULD

Between :

Epping Forest District Council

Claimant

- and -

Somani Hotels Limited

-and –

(1) Secretary of State for the Home Department

-and –

(2) Clearsprings Ready Homes Limited

Defendant

Interveners

Philip Coppel KC & Natasha Peter (instructed by Sharpe Pritchard LLP) for the Claimant

Jenny Wigley KC & Piers Riley-Smith (instructed by Richard Buxton Solicitors) for the Defendant

James Strachan KC & Katharine Elliot (instructed by Government Legal Department) for the First Intervener

Chris Buttler KC & Jacqueline Lean (instructed by Clearsprings Group) for the Second Intervener

Hearing dates: 13-15 October 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 12pm on Tuesday 11 November 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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MR JUSTICE MOULD

MR JUSTICE MOULD :