Abusive changes of use to circumvent planning law

[cjard]

NB. Everything I post is purely a guess, and in no way necessarily factually correct

Please, if the OP's name is "Auction", trouser it..

 

[cjard]

But the Parliametary draftsmen should word their statutes correctly according to how the Government wants the legislation to be

They do, but for a few catches:
1) they get it wrong
2) the first attempts at it cannot catch all combinations an permutations that life is capable of expressing

So begins a process of successive refinement until there is reached a point where it's not worth going to the effort of changing things again to catch the few outliers that remain

But the utopia you describe sounds dangerously close to BAS' desire that every law is clear and unambiguous and courts are not required because there is no room for interpretation. Fortunately, I think courts will always be required, and therein will always be pantomime and misdirection generating outcomes unintended by parliament

 

[tony1851]

But the Parliametary draftsmen should word their statutes correctly according to how the Government wants the legislation to be

They do, but for a few catches:
1) they get it wrong
2) the first attempts at it cannot catch all combinations an permutations that life is capable of expressing

So begins a process of successive refinement until there is reached a point where it's not worth going to the effort of changing things again to catch the few outliers that remain

But the utopia you describe sounds dangerously close to BAS' desire that every law is clear and unambiguous and courts are not required because there is no room for interpretation. Fortunately, I think courts will always be required, and therein will always be pantomime and misdirection generating outcomes unintended by parliament

Agree 100%; my point was that most statute law tends to restrict the citizen in some way. Much of it is administered by central/local government bods, who frequently get it wrong, or deliberately interpret it to cause the most restriction on the individual.

Yes, we certainly do need a judiciary which forms an effective check on the legislature; and yes, the law will always evolve.