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Landowner Wins £5.8 Million for Power Cable Blight

Written on May 1, 2013 at 2:45 pm

A landowner has been awarded more than £5.8 million compensation under the Electricity Act 1989 after its development plans were scotched by an overhead power cable crossing its land. The Upper Tribunal (UT) ruled that the cable’s presence had reduced the land’s value close to zero and the pay-out represented a fair assessment of the… Read More »

Property Investor Wins £100,000 for Compulsorily Acquired House

Written on April 30, 2013 at 3:28 pm

A property investor has been awarded almost £100,000 compensation after an end-of-terrace house on one of Britain’s most deprived housing estates was compulsorily acquired by a local authority as part of a regeneration scheme. The Upper Tribunal ruled that the pay-out represented a fair assessment of the property’s market value at the time of its… Read More »

Local Authority ‘Privatisation’ Plans Receive Judicial Blessing

Written on April 29, 2013 at 2:17 pm

A local authority’s controversial proposals to outsource swathes of its public duties to the private sector have been given the green light by the High Court. Ruling that, save in one respect, a local resident’s challenge to the plans had been brought too late, the court noted that it was not its role to rule… Read More »

Tug Boat Dweller Must Pay Council Tax

Written on April 22, 2013 at 10:17 am

In a ruling of importance to all boat dwellers, a family man who lived on a tugboat in the River Taw estuary, in Barnstaple, has failed in an epic legal struggle to avoid paying council tax. The Court of Appeal ruled that, the vessel having remained on the same mooring for more than two years,… Read More »

Housing Development Plans Boosted

Written on April 12, 2013 at 11:35 am

Proposals for up to 175 new homes on the edge of a Berkshire village have been boosted after the High Court ruled that the civil servant who blocked the plans made an error of law in failing to take into account a ministerial statement in which a fundamental shift in planning policy was announced to… Read More »

Council Must Pay £105,000 for Semi-Derelict Home

Written on February 20, 2013 at 12:35 pm

The freehold owner of a semi-derelict property that was compulsorily acquired by a local authority has been awarded £105,000 compensation. Rejecting Leicester City Council’s plea that compensation should be assessed at in the region of £91,000, the Upper Tribunal ruled that it was legitimate to take into account the property’s subsequent re-sale at auction for… Read More »

University’s Land Development Hopes Boosted

Written on February 19, 2013 at 10:36 am

Bristol University’s hopes that 70 hectares of land it owns on the outskirts of the city will be removed from the green belt and allocated for housing development have been boosted by a High Court ruling. The court overturned a central plank of North Somerset Council’s core strategy on grounds that it was based on… Read More »

Gypsy Matriarch Loses Marathon Planning Fight

Written on February 13, 2013 at 6:04 am

A gypsy matriarch who has fought every inch of the way for the right to settle on a plot of agricultural land in Somerset has finally had her case dismissed by the Court of Appeal. The court rejected her pleas that a government planning inspector had failed to have adequate regard to the paucity of… Read More »

Mortgage Debt Not Regulated by Consumer Credit Act 1974

Written on February 12, 2013 at 7:28 am

A couple who defaulted on their £500,000 mortgage have failed to convince the High Court that the loan is unenforceable by reason of the lender’s failure to comply with the safeguards contained within the Consumer Credit Act 1974. The court rejected the householder’s plea that the bank’s agreement to capitalise their arrears had resulted in… Read More »

Buy-to-Let Investor’s Fraud Claim Struck Out

Written on February 8, 2013 at 3:02 pm

A buy-to-let investor who alleged that she was induced by fraudulent misrepresentation into the disastrous purchase of a portfolio of seven properties at home and abroad has had her compensation claim struck out. The High Court ruled that her case against a businessman who she had argued was a ‘shadow director’ of a company that… Read More »

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