Frescati Estates v Walker

JurisdictionIreland
CourtSupreme Court
Judgment Date01 January 1975
Docket Number[1973. No. 2937 P]
Date01 January 1975
(S.C.)
Frescati Estates
and
Walker

Status of applicant -Outline application - Whether applicant must have estate in land specified in application -Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963, (Permission), Regulations, 1964 (S.I. No. 221), Arts. 2-4 - Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963 (No. 28), ss.24-26.

The Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963, requires permission under the Act to be obtained for any development of land; the Act contains a definition of the word "owner" in relation to land. Section 26, sub-s. 1, of the Act provides for applications being made to planning authorities in accordance with permission regulations for the development of land, and for the granting of permissions subject to conditions. Section 25, sub-s. 1, of the Act states that the appropriate Minister of State shall provide, by permission regulations, for the granting of...

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    • High Court
    • 28 November 2025
    ...unfair or anomalous obligations on private citizens in particular. Thus, for example, as far back as Frescati Estates Ltd. v Walker [1975] IR 177 at 187 this Court held that the Planning Acts should, where possible, not be interpreted in a way which would lead to ‘strange incongruities.’ In......
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    • High Court
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    .... Such an outcome is consistent with the settled caselaw relied on by the opposing parties, specifically Frascati Estates Ltd v. Walker [1975] I.R. 177; Simons J. in ( [2019] IEHC 450 Heather Hill Management Company CLG v. An Bord Pleanála Unreported, High Court, 21 June 2019); ( [2020] IEH......
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  • Consensual Assault - Just what is the law?
    • Ireland
    • Trinity College Law Review No. V-2002, January 2002
    • 1 January 2002
    ...1995), at 167-168. But cf. Minister for Industry and Commerce v. Hales [1967 IR 50, per Henchy J, at 76. 22 Frescati Estates v. Walker [1975] IR 177; CW Shipping Co Ltd v. Limerick Harbour Commissioners [1989] ILRM 416; People (DPP) v. Farrell [1978] IR 13; In re Emergency Powers Bill [1977......