ABSTRACT
Planning permissions are rarely granted without some kind of condition or conditions being attached to the notice of approval. The planning authority has a very wide remit and is entitled to grant permission, ‘subject to such conditions as they think fit’ (s 70(1)(a)). This power is not completely unfettered and must be read subject to the requirements of the general law, and in particular that statutory powers must be exercised only for the purpose of the statute concerned.
