Haytop Country Park Ltd (appellant) v Amber Valley Borough Council (respondent)
Wednesday 8 October 2025
By Appellant’s Notice filed on 17 February 2025, the Appellant (Respondent below) Haytop Country Park Limited, appeal the decision of Martin Rodger KC, sitting as Deputy President of the Upper Tribunal, judgment being delivered on 22 August 2024.
Haytop Country Park (the Park) is a caravan site near Whatstandwell in the Derwent Valley in Derbyshire.
The respondent acquired the Park in 2016 and wishes to operate it as a site for permanent residential occupation. In furtherance of that ambition it has carried out substantial engineering work including the felling of trees, extensive ground works to level and reprofile parts of the landscape, and the installation of new concrete plinths for permanent twin-unit park homes.
When the respondent carried out its development it believed that it was entitled to do so without planning permission under permitted development rights – but it was mistaken. The appellant, which is the local planning authority (the Council), served an enforcement notice requiring the removal of the works, and obtained a tree replacement order.
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