Green belt development permission quashed due to visual harm (Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster) v North Yorkshire County Council)

Table of contents

• What are the practical implications of the judgment?
• What was the background to this case?
• What did the Court of Appeal decide?

Article summary

Planning analysis: Christopher Tofts, partner at Stephens Scown LLP, examines a Court of Appeal decision to quash a mineral planning authority’s grant of planning permission to extend a limestone quarry, after the authority’s planning officer failed to take into consideration the visual impact of the proposed extension when she assessed its likely effect on the openness of the green belt.