Community group secures permission for legal challenge over refusal by local authority to list playing field as asset of community value

A community group in Leeds has been given permission to challenge the refusal of the city council to register a playing field as an asset of community value, it has been reported.

Landmark Chambers said this followed a victory for the group in an earlier judicial review challenge to the previous refusal of the council to register the playing field in Wortley. 

The set said: “In November 2020, that refusal to register was quashed by the High Court by consent on the basis of an accepted error of law in the council’s decision making.  The council was forced to accept that the current community uses of the playing field do meet the test of being non-ancillary uses that ‘further the social wellbeing or social interests of the local community’, notwithstanding that the uses may not have formal permission from the landowner.

“The council’s redetermination of the application and further refusal (made on the basis of their own development intentions for the site) is subject to the current judicial review application which has been granted permission to proceed and has been designated as ‘significant’ by the Planning Court.”

Jenny Wigley QC of Landmark Chambers represents TV Harrison CIC, the community group, instructed by Ricardo Gama at Richard Buxton solicitors.

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