[2024] UKUT 237 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-717

AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

FTT REF: BIR/17UB/PHR/2022/0001

Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

22 August 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

PARK HOMES – SITE LICENSING – breaches of planning control and tree preservation order – relationship between site licensing and planning enforcement – s.5, Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 – s.285, Town and Country Planning Act 1990 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

AMBER VALLEY BOROUGH COUNCIL

Appellant

-and-

HAYTOP COUNTRY PARK LIMITED

Respondent

Haytop Country Park,

Whatstandwell,

Derbyshire DE4 5HP

Martin Rodger KC,

Deputy Chamber President

18 June 2024

Richard Kimblin KC, instructed by the Borough Solicitor, Amber Valley Borough Council, for the appellant

Richard Harwood KC, instructed by Apps Legal Limited, for the respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Amber Valley Borough Council v Haytop Country Park Ltd [2020] UKUT 68 (LC)

Babbage v North Norfolk District Council (1989) 59 P&CR 248

Esdell Caravan Parks Limited v Hemel Hempstead Rural District Council [1966] 1 QB 895

Gateshead MBC v Secretary of State for the Environment [1995] Env LR 37

Haytop Country Park Ltd v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2022] EWHC 1848 (Admin)

R (Morge) v Hampshire County Council [2011] UKSC 2

R v Warwickshire County Council ex.p. Powergen plc (1997) 75 P&CR 89

Staffordshire County Council v Challinor [2007] EWCA Civ 864