Environmental Protection in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • South Bucks District Council v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and another
    • House of Lords
    • 01 July 2004

  • Environment Agency v Biffa Waste Services Ltd
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 12 December 2006

    I have set out the required monitoring methodology in detail because it demonstrates, first, the extent of the operator's duty to monitor and, secondly, the close co-operation contemplated between the operator and the officers of the Environment Agency in achieving environmental protection. The procedure provided does not support a construction of 2.6.12 which gives the first and last word in determining whether a breach of condition has occurred to the officer of the Agency.

  • South Lakeland District Council v Secretary of State for the Environment and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 March 1991

    Second, the statute does not in terms require that a development must perform a preserving or enhancing function. The court is not here concerned with enhancement, but the ordinary meaning of "preserve" as a transitive verb is "to keep safe from harm or injury; to keep in safety, save, take care of, guard" (OED (2nd edn) Vol XII, P 404). In my judgment character or appearance can be said to be preserved where they are not harmed.

  • Trevelyan v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 February 2001

    Where the Secretary of State or an inspector appointed by him has to consider whether a right of way that is marked on a definitive map in fact exists, he must start with an initial presumption that it does. If there were no evidence which made it reasonably arguable that such a right of way existed, it should not have been marked on the map. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it should be assumed that the proper procedures were followed and thus that such evidence existed.

  • Clientearth (No.2) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mayor of London and Others (Interested Parties)
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 02 November 2016

    But I reject any suggestion that the state can have any regard to cost in fixing the target date for compliance or in determining the route by which the compliance can be achieved where one route produces results quicker than another. In those respects the determining consideration has to be the efficacy of the measure in question and not their cost. That, it seems to me, flows inevitably from the requirements in the Article to keep the exceedance period as short as possible.

  • Ramblers' Association v The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Others
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 08 November 2012

    So far as the discretion which Mr Laurence contends arises is concerned, in my judgment it is clear that there is no further discretion. The Secretary of State has different powers where he, as Mr Buley points out, correctly, in his skeleton argument, is the recipient of a report from an Inspector. As he is the decision-maker, he may disagree with the conclusions of the Inspector, and that is why the Secretary of State "may" confirm or not confirm the order.

  • John Leslie Finney v Welsh Ministers
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 November 2019

    Section 73 (1) is on its face limited to permission for the development of land “without complying with conditions” subject to which a previous planning permission has been granted. In other words the purpose of such an application is to avoid committing a breach of planning control of the second type referred to in section 171A. The natural inference from that imperative is that the planning authority cannot use section 73 to change the description of the development.

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Law Firm Commentaries
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    • JD Supra United Kingdom
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    • LexBlog United Kingdom
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  • EPA Announces Joint Research Partnership with UK Agencies Regarding the Behavior and Effects of Nanomaterials in the Environment
    • LexBlog United Kingdom
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  • Post-Brexit Environmental Principles and Governance Bill Consultation Launches in UK
    • LexBlog United Kingdom
    Consultation document proposes replacing the European Commission with a new environmental watchdog, among other recommendations. By Paul A. Davies and Michael D. Green The UK government has announc...
    ... ... relation to the proposed new Environmental Principles and Governance Bill, which aims to ensure maintained and strengthened environmental protection following the UKs exit from the EU. While this particular consultation, which was announced on 10 May, relates to England, the government has ... ...
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