The case is required reading for anyone concerned with the issue of the meaning of curtilage in the context of planning or one of the many statutes that uses the term (the case itself was on the Commons Act 2006). The landowner is now seeking permission to appeal from the Supreme Court, so watch this space!

Douglas Edwards QC and George Mackenzie appeared for the landowner, Blackbushe Airport Ltd, and Philip Petchey for the Open Spaces Society.