Campaigners have won a Supreme Court appeal to stop houses being built on a park protected by a 100-year-old statutory trust in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
In a landmark ruling for the protection of green spaces, a judgment handed down on Wednesday after a five-year legal battle ruled in favour of a resident who argued a statutory trust created in 1926 gave residents rights of recreation over the land, even after the council had sold it to a developer.
Case summary: R (on the application of Day) v Shropshire Council
As a result of the judgment, planning permission for 15 houses to be built by CSE Developments on the site has now been quashed.
The judgment will have national implications for other councils which plan to sell off pockets of green space in opposition to residents.
