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Case No: LC-2024-52
IN THE MATTER OF A NOTICE OF REFERENCE
14 February 2025
TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007
COMPENSATION – TREE PRESERVATION ORDER – cracks to rear of property – refusal of consent to fell an oak tree in adjoining land – claim for costs of underpinning works – causation – claim dismissed - Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation) (England) Regulations 2012
BETWEEN:
CHUBB EUROPEAN GROUP SE
Claimant
-and-
ENFIELD LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL
Compensating Authority
98 Old Park Ridings,
Enfield,
London, N21 2EP
Mrs Diane Martin, TD, MRICS FAAV
6-7 November 2024
Mr Robin Green, instructed by Kennedys for the claimant
Mr James Neill, instructed by Legal Services, London Borough of Enfield
© CROWN COPYRIGHT 2025
No cases are referred to in this decision.
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- Introduction
- Factual background and chronology
- Legal background
- The issues to be determined
- Technical evidence of causation
- The CET Report
- The Crawford Addendum Report
- The MWA Report
- The heave calculation
- The level monitoring from 28 July 2015 to 18 January 2018
- Submissions for the claimant on causation
- Submissions for the authority on causation
- Conclusions
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