Legal Ruling can Affect Youth Centre
30 Apr 2005
Applications for village green status are having an effect on the county council's plans for the sale of their surplus assets. There have been three village green applications including the Theydon Bois Youth Centre site. One has been refused.
A recent Court of Appeal ruling has raised issues of principle which are now going to the House of Lords. The court of Appeal ruled that if the landowner erected a sign on the land before an application for village green status was determined the application falls.
Following the district council's refusal to give outline planning permission for residential development of the site, the county council has lodged an appeal This is likely to be heard in October/ November.