Town & country planning

The Planning Court dismissed the claimant’s application to quash the decision of the inspector appointed by the first defendant Secretary of State, dismissing her appeal against the second defendant local planning authority’s refusal to grant prior approval for an extension to her house. The challenge to the inspector’s conclusion, that works on constructing the extension had begun before the claimant had applied to the authority, contrary to condition A.4(2) of Pt 1 of Sch 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (SI 2015/596), failed.