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Browse 14 cases in the Planning Geek Case Law Library concerning Prior approval.
Gluck confirms that a GPDO prior-approval deadline can be extended by agreement under Article 7(c), provided the longer period is identifiable and the agreement is evidenced in writing.
Keenan confirms that expiry of a prior-approval deadline cannot create permitted development rights where the proposal never qualified for the underlying GPDO class.
Hibbitt is the leading Class Q authority on the line between converting an agricultural building and works that amount in substance to rebuilding.
Empire serviced apartments is an important Planning Court case on the planning use of flats operated as short-term serviced accommodation. The court upheld an Inspector’s conclusion that the relevant use was a sui generis serviced-apartment use rather than ordinary C3 dwellinghouses. It also confirms that London’s 90-night short-letting rule does not itself decide the planning-use classification.
Schneck is a 2022 Planning Court judgment on affordable housing viability, flood risk and a Class AA permitted-development fallback. The claimant succeeded on the affordable-housing and fallback grounds, while the flood-risk challenge failed.
