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Titchfield Festival Theatre - the new chapter. Or not, as it happens

The Court of Appeal recently clarified how s.57(4) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 applies when an enforcement notice is issued but planning permission is not required for some of the land concerned to revert to its lawful use immediately before an alleged breach. Roderick Morton analyses the judgment.
April 17, 2026
Titchfield Festival Theatre - the new chapter. Or not, as it happens

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Permission for Take Off: £205m Cardiff Airport Subsidy Authorised by the CAT

April 16, 2026
This week saw the Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”) hand down judgment in the case of Bristol Airport Limited v Welsh Ministers [2026] CAT 30. It’s a subsidy control case of particular interest, as it is the first to interrogate the level of detail required from the assessment of a subsidy against the subsidy control principles.

Planning committees and delegation

April 09, 2026
The government’s proposed reforms to planning committees and delegation could herald a new councillor–officer dynamic, writes Nagla Stevens.

Injunctions to restrain breaches of planning control

April 09, 2026
Mark O’Brien O’Reilly reports on a council’s successful application for a final injunction with both mandatory and restraining elements following unauthorised development in the Green Belt.

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