Articles tagged as Land Law
Latest Law Papers tagged as Land Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
R (on the application of Wright) v Resilient Energy Severndale Ltd and Forest of Dean District Council [2019] UKSC 53
Case Summaries
Forest of Dean District Council granted planning permission for a 500kW wind turbine after taking into account a promise to pay 4% of the operating society's turnover into a local community fund for 25 years. The Supreme Court held that this promise was not a material consideration: it did not serve a planning purpose related […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
R (on the application of Lancashire County Council) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and another [2019] UKSC 58
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The Supreme Court held that land held by a public authority for statutory purposes cannot be registered as a town or village green where registration would be incompatible with those purposes, applying the principle from Newhaven more widely than the Court of Appeal. In joined appeals concerning school land in Lancashire and hospital land in […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Sequent Nominees Ltd (formerly Rotrust Nominees Ltd) v Hautford Ltd (a company registered in the British Virgin Islands) [2019] UKSC 47
Case Summaries
The freeholder of a Soho building refused consent to a planning application which would have changed two floors to residential use and substantially increased the tenant’s chance of buying the freehold under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967. The judge and the Court of Appeal held that refusal unreasonable. A majority of the Supreme Court held […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Nottingham City Council v Parr and another [2018] UKSC 51
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A local authority sought to prevent two attic rooms from being used as bedrooms in houses in multiple occupation. The case concerned the licensing regime and room-size guidance applicable to those licences. The Court had to decide how far substantial shared living space, and the way residents lived together, could be taken into account. The […] ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Regency Villas Title Ltd and others (Respondents/Cross-Appellants) v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd and others (Appellants/Cross-Respondents) [2018] UKSC 57
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The Supreme Court held that the free use of Broome Park’s sporting and leisure facilities could be granted to the neighbouring Regency Villas timeshare land as a freehold easement. A majority decided that recreational rights are not disqualified merely because they are enjoyed for their own sake, and that the 1981 grant covered the leisure […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
S Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd [2018] UKSC 62
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The Supreme Court held that a business landlord cannot oppose a new tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 by relying on works it would carry out only in order to remove the tenant. The Cavendish Hotel had advanced a costly and largely useless scheme of alterations at 80 Jermyn Street solely to satisfy […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
London Borough of Southwark and another v Transport for London [2018] UKSC 63
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The Supreme Court decided how much of a London road passes to Transport for London when it becomes the highway authority. The words transferring “the highway, in so far as it is vested in the former highway authority” carry all rights in the vertical plane held by the former authority in that capacity, and are […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Homes and Communities Agency v J S Bloor (Wilmslow) Ltd [2017] UKSC 12
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The Supreme Court restored the Upper Tribunal’s award of £746,000 for grazing land compulsorily acquired for the Kingsway Business Park, holding that the tribunal had lawfully assessed its hope value for residential development in a world without that scheme. Underlying planning policies could properly be weighed when judging the prospects of permission apart from the […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Suffolk Coastal District Council v Hopkins Homes Ltd and another [2017] UKSC 37
Case Summaries
Two councils lacked a five-year supply of housing land. Did that make every policy restricting housing out of date, including policies protecting the countryside? The Supreme Court considered that question under the 2012 National Planning Policy Framework. Its answer explains why the same housing shortage could leave a planning permission intact in one village and […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Aberdeen City and Shire Strategic Development Planning Authority v Elsick Development Company Limited [2017] UKSC 66
Case Summaries
The UK Supreme Court held that a Scottish planning authority could not lawfully require developers, through supplementary guidance and planning obligations, to pay into a pooled transport fund where a development’s connection with some of the works was only trivial. Such a payment did not restrict or regulate the development of the payer’s land, as […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Dover District Council v CPRE Kent [2017] UKSC 79
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Dover District Council granted planning permission for a large housing and leisure scheme in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, restoring the applied-for 521 homes after its officers had advised a reduction to 365. The Supreme Court held that the Council had to publish the main reasons for that decision, and that comments […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Nielson-Jones v Fedden [1975] Ch 222
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A woman and her husband were the legal and beneficial joint tenants of a matrimonial home. Upon their separation… ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Lynn Shellfish Ltd and others v Loose and another [2016] UKSC 14
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On the east side of the Wash, the Le Strange estate has an exclusive right, gained by long use, to take cockles and mussels from a stretch of foreshore. The Supreme Court held that the seaward edge of that right is the lowest astronomical tide as it stands from time to time, but that a […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
McDonald v McDonald and others [2016] UKSC 28
Case Summaries
Fiona McDonald faced a possession claim for the home her parents had bought for her and let to her on an assured shorthold tenancy. She argued that the court, as a public authority, had to consider whether eviction would be a disproportionate interference with her right to respect for her home. The Supreme Court held […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Edwards v Kumarasamy [2016] UKSC 40
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Mr Edwards tripped on an uneven paving stone outside his block of flats and sued his landlord for breach of the repairing covenant implied by section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. The Supreme Court held that the landlord was not liable: the paved area was not part of the exterior of the […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
