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Public access to land.
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Town and village greens
Inhabitants of locality or neighbourhood within a locality
Leeds Group plc v Leeds City Council
[2010] EWHC 810 (Ch)
Summary
C failed in a challenge to the registration as a town or village green of land known as Yeadon Banks on the outskirts of Leeds on the grounds that the inhabitants were not inhabitants of any locality, or of any neighbourhood within a locality.
Facts
C owns about 5 acres of the land and the Council owns the remainder. The Council is also the registration authority which appointed the independent inspector who held a non-statutory public inquiry and recommended registration of the whole of the land. The Council, which did not itself object to the application, decided to accept the recommendation and so the land was registered. C challenged the registration both by an application for rectification under s14 of the 1965 Act and by an application for judicial review.
In order to secure registration of the land as a green the campaigners had to show that the land was land on which for not less than twenty years a significant number of the inhabitants of ... THIS IS AN EXTRACT OF THE FULL TEXT. TO GET THE FULL TEXT, SEE BELOW
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