Gain a comprehensive understanding of how regulations and statutory requirements related to highways, streets, and public rights of way affect planning processes. Tailored for legal professionals, this guidance provides essential insights to navigate challenges, ensure compliance, and offer effective client advice. Efficiently manage disputes and applications within the planning framework, equipped with the crucial tools and expertise needed to protect interests and maintain public access and land use integrity.
Planning analysis: In Guardians of Whitewebbs v Enfield LBC, the High Court quashed planning permission for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s proposed...
Planning analysis: In Aaron Scott Canham v Calderdale MBC, the Planning Court held that the common law rule against apparent bias does not apply to a...
The Centre for Digital Public Services (CDPS) has published its 2025–26 report on digital planning services in Wales, commissioned by the Welsh...
The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) has published non-statutory guidance on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process for Nationally Significant...
Statutory wayleaves and rights of accessUtilitiesThe water, gas, electricity, communications and energy industries enjoy statutory rights of access...
Planning conditions—the six testsPowers to impose planning conditionsThe general powers for local planning authorities (LPAs) to impose conditions on...
What rights of access are there over an unadopted road, the owner of which is unknown?Normally, if there is privately owned land in between a property...
What is a section 111 agreement?Section 111 agreements are agreements entered into with a local authority under section 111 of the Local Government...
Can the local authority un-adopt an already adopted road, if so under what circumstances can they do so?Once a highway has been adopted, if it is no longer needed as public highway, or when the land is needed for development to take place, it can be 'stopped up' with the effect that the public no
What rights of access do gas companies enjoy for the purpose of maintenance and repair of utility installations?Gas companies’ rights to enter premises for maintenance and repair are statutory rights, mainly from the Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954 (RE(GEB)A 1954), the Gas Act
Where a roadway is adopted by the local highways authority, can it also form part of an individual property owner's registered title? What is the effect if a way is both adopted but also shown as within a registered title to a residential property?Where a roadway is adopted by the local highways
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some point
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