[2025] UKUT 312 (LC)

Case No: LC-2019-287

IN THE MATTER OF A NOTICE OF REFERENCE

Royal Courts of Justice, Strand,

London WC2A 2LL

26 September 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

COMPENSATION – PLANNING PERMISSION – Certificate of Appropriate Alternative Development – Tribunal’s function in CAAD appeals – relevance of CAADs and CAAD applications for neighbouring sites – Certificate granted in form proposed by respondent

BETWEEN:

QUINTAIN CITY PARK GATE BIRMINGHAM LIMITED

Appellant

-and-

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRANSPORT

Respondent

Land at City Park Gate,

Birmingham

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President and

Peter D McCrea OBE FRICS FCIArb

29, 30, 31 July and 1 August 2025

David Elvin KC and Richard Moules KC, instructed by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, for the appellant

Guy Williams KC, Nina Pindham, Isabella Buono and Brendan Brett, instructed by DLA Piper UK LLP, for the respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

East Quayside 12 LLP v Newcastle City Council [2023] EWCA Civ 359

First Secretary of State v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd [2008] JPL 973

Fletcher Estates (Harlescott) Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment [2000] 2 AC 307

Mount Cook Land Ltd v Westminster City Council [2003] EWCA Civ 1346; [2004] JPL 470

Nofax Station Road Ltd v Barnet LBC [2025] UKUT 241 (LC)

Pearce v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy [2021] EWHC 326 (Admin); [2022] Env L R 4

Pro Investments v Hounslow LBC [2019] UKUT 319 (LC)

R (Langley Park School for Girls) v Bromley LBC [2020] 1 P & CR 10

R (Littlewood) v Bassetlaw District Council [2009] Env. L.R. 407

R (Tesco Stores Ltd) v Stockport MBC [2025] EWCA Civ 610

Secretary of State for Transport v Curzon Park Ltd & Ors [2023] UKSC 30, [2023] 1 WLR 2762; on appeal from [2021] EWCA Civ 651; on appeal from [2020] UKUT 37 (LC), [2020] RVR 154

Secretary of State for Transport v Quintain City Park Gate Birmingham Ltd & Ors [2025] UKUT 7 (LC), [2025] RVR 102

Tesco Stores Ltd v Dundee City Council [2012] UKSC 13, [2012] PTSR 983

Trusthouse Forte Hotels Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment (1986) 53 P&CR 293