Cases - Associated Provincial Picture Houses v Wednesbury Corporation
Record details
- Name
- Associated Provincial Picture Houses v Wednesbury Corporation
- Date
- [1947]
- Citation
- 2 AII ER 680
- Legislation
- Keywords
- Planning control
- Summary
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In this case Lord Green MR said:
'... the court is entitled to investigate the action of the local authority with a view to seeing whether it has taken into account matters which it ought not to take into account, or, conversely, has refused to take into account or neglected to take into account matters which it ought to take into account. Once that question is answered in favour of the local authority, it may still be possible to say that the local authority, nevertheless, have come to a conclusion so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ever have come to it. In such a case, again, I think the court can interfere ... the task of the court is not to decide what it thinks reasonable, but to decide whether the condition imposed by the local authority is one which no reasonable authority, acting within the four corners of their jurisdiction, could have decided to impose ...'