NAPE Monthly Column

Ivy Legal write a monthly column for the Royal Town Planning Institute's Network for Planning Enforcement (NAPE) newsletter. Some of these articles are listed below.

it's academic

by Roderick Morton • 10 July 2026
The King oao UK Land and Homes Limited and Walsall MBC [2026] EWHC 1719

When is a dwellinghouse not a dwellinghouse?

by Roderick Morton • 4 June 2026
Sentinel Estates Ltd v SSHCLG and Brent [2026] EWHC 1122 (Admin)

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

by Roderick Morton • 27 March 2026
Titchfield Festival Theatre v SSHCLG and Fareham BC [2026] EWCA Civ 36

How not to control second homes

by Roderick Morton • 26 September 2025
R v Williams and Cyngor Gwynedd [2025/ EWHC 2395 (Admin)

Don’t forget about those PD rights!

by Roderick Morton • 14 August 2025
Singhal UK Ltd v SSLUHC and Hounslow LBC [2025] EWHC 1967 (Admin)

FOI is a collateral attack on enforcement

by Roderick Morton • 24 July 2025
Nicastro v The Information Commissioner [2025] UKFTT 00706 (GRC)

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

by Roderick Morton • 25 April 2025
Titchfield Festival Theatre v SSHCLG and Fareham BC [2025] EWHC 883 (Admin)

Cider House doesn't Rule

by Roderick Morton • 13 February 2025
Paton v SSLUHC and Maldon DC [2025] EWHC 245 (Admin)

Caravan site PD cannot trump enforcement notice

by Roderick Morton • 25 November 2024
Amber Valley BC v Haytop Country Park Ltd [2024] UKUT 237 (LC)

"Is an excuse a use"

by Roderick Morton • 17 October 2024
Jones vs Isle of Anglesey County Council and Another [2024][ EWHC 2582] (Admin)

Biodiversity Net Gain and Planning Enforcement- a conundrum

by Izindi Visagie • 11 October 2024
originally written for Scottish Planner

When is an outbuilding an extension?

by Roderick Morton • 19 September 2024
Warwick DC v SSLUGC and others [2022] EWHC 2145 (Admin)

“Ariyo, Round 2”

by Roderick Morton • 27 August 2024
LB Richmond upon Thames v the King oao Owolabi Ariyo [2024] EXCA Civ 960

2 Become 1

by Roderick Morton • 23 July 2024
LB Lambeth v SSLUHC [2024] EWHC 1391

Failure to serve

by Roderick Morton • 6 June 2024
LB Barking and Dagenham v Zannat Ara Aziz [2024] EWHC 1212 (Admin)

Murfitt is judge-made law, not a statutory principle.

by Roderick Morton • 16 May 2024
Caldwell and Timberstore v SSLUHC [2024] EWCA Civ 467

Gypsy and Traveller sites in the Green Belt

by Roderick Morton • 26 April 2024
Ward v SSLUHC and Basildon District Council [2024] EWHC 676 (Admin)

Stripey House Owner Strikes Out

by Roderick Morton • 22 March 2024
R oao Lisle-Mainwaring v RB Kensington and Chelsea and another

Implementation - deviation from plans

by Roderick Morton • 13 February 2024
Southwood v Buckinghamshire Council [2024] EWHC 71 (Admin)

Enforcement Warning Notices

by Roderick Morton • 30 January 2024
s172ZA TCPA 1990

Interpreting planning permissions

by Roderick Morton • 26 October 2023
Ariyo v Richmond Upon Thames LBC [2023] EWHC 2278
Just what is the “streetscene” and the “character and appearance of an area”?

Just what is the “streetscene” and the “character and appearance of an area”?

by Roderick Morton • 28 September 2023
Kazalbash v SSLUHC and Hillingdon [2023] EWCA Civ 904

Murfitt limited - again

by Roderick Morton • 7 August 2023
Removal of facilitating development

All I wanted was closure

by Roderick Morton • 19 July 2023
Pathfield Estates Ltd v LB Haringey [2023] EWHC 1790 (Admin)
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