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Court grants injunction to remove gypsies from AONB despite potential coronavirus (COVID-19) impacts (Chichester DC v Sullivan)

Published on: 13 August 2020

Table of contents

  • What are the practical implications of this case?
  • What was the background to the case?
  • Legal background
  • Factual background
  • What did the court find?
  • The proportionality exercise
  • Impact of the pandemic
  • Case details

Article summary

Planning analysis: In Chichester DC v Sullivan, the High Court allowed an application under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990) to require gypsies to vacate a site, where the breaches of planning control were extensive, intentional, pervasive and long-standing and where evidence demonstrated that nothing short of an injunction would provide effective restraint. Despite arguments that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic would make life particularly hard for gypsies on the road, the judge considered that it should not prevent the gypsies from vacating the site within the proposed timescale.

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