Environment

Dobson and others v Thames Water Utitlities and another [2009] EWCA Civ 28

An award of damages in nuisance to a person with a proprietary interest in a property would not necessarily rule out an award to a person living in the same property with no proprietary interest under Article 8 of the Convention, although the award of damages at common law to a property owner would normally constitute just satisfaction for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998

Langton and McGill v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and West Dorset District Council

[2008] EWHC 3256

The failure by a planning inspector to consider whether there were any alternative sites for travellers meant that his refusal to grant them temporary planning permission for the change of use of land within an area of outstanding natural beauty had to be reconsidered

Lars and Astrid Fagerskiold v Sweden (Admissibility Decision) 26 February 2008

The applicants' complaint under Articles 8 and Article 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention of Human Rights that noise emissions from a wind turbine near their property made it impossible for them to enjoy their private and family life and interfered with their peaceful enjoyment of their property has been declared inadmissible.