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Town and country planning – Permission for development. The Administrative Court allowed the claimant's application for judicial review of the defendant local planning authority's decision declining to determine his application for planning permission for the construction of a detached double garage. As the authority conceded, it had erred in having stated it had not been possible to validate an application that sought permission to amend a building which was itself unlawful and that it had been irrelevant.
Town and country planning – Permission for development. The Administrative Court allowed the claimant's application for judicial review of the defendant local planning authority's decision declining to determine his application for planning permission for the construction of a detached double garage. As the authority conceded, it had erred in having stated it had not been possible to validate an application that sought permission to amend a building which was itself unlawful and that it had been irrelevant.
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