Burnell v Downham Market Urban District Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1952
Date1952
CourtCourt of Appeal
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15 cases
  • Clayton v Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 10 November 1960
    ...relating to Putney Bridge, Hall v. Putney Overseers 7 Queen's Bench Division, at page 223, and was in turn followed by this Court in the Downham Market case supra relating to a War Memorial Playing Field — it was held by the House of Lords that the right of the public to the use and enjoyme......
  • Sheffield Corporation v Tranter (Valuation Officer)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 6 June 1957
    ...the temporary and limited exclusions of the public, still the principle that the public was really in occupation remained as valid in the Downham case as in the Brockwell Park case. 14 In the course of the Judgment of the Court at page 66, it is pointed out that "free and unrestricted use" ......
  • Corporation of Dublin v Dublin Port and Docks Board
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 1978
    ...Commissioners [1899] 2 I.R. 214. 18 Lambeth Overseers v. London County Council [1897] A.C. 625. 19 Burnell v. Downham Market U.D.C. [1952] 2 Q.B. 55. 20 Liverpool Corporation v. West Derby Assessment Committee [1908] 2 K.B. 647. 21 London Playing Fields Society v. Essex South West Area Asse......
  • R Peter Day v Shropshire Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 March 2023
    ...football pitches on land acquired under the OSA 1906 was ancillary to their management of the field as an open space ( Burnell v Downham Market Urban District Council [1952] 2 QB 55, [1952] 1 All ER 601). Similarly ancillary was the letting of a refreshment pavilion to a caterer at an ann......
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