“…consideration” … in the control of development … is whether it serves a planning purpose: see Newbury District Council v Secretary of State for the Environment [1981] A.C. 578, 599 per Viscount Dilhorne …”. A “planning purpose”, he said, “is one which relates to the character of the use of land” – not , as Lord Parker C.J. put it in …”
“…Co. Ltd. [2017] P.T.S.R. 1413, at paragraph 30, approving the observations of Lord Scarman in Newbury District Council v Secretary of State for the Environment [1981] A.C. 578, at p.619).…”