Claim No. KB-2026-MAN-000196
In the High Court of Justice
Manchester District Registry
King’s Bench Division
Before His Honour Judge Stephen davies sitting as a High Court Judge on 15 may 2026
In the matter of an injunction pursuant to section 187b of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Between
Blackpool Borough Council
Claimant
and
(1) Alice Ester Beale
(2) Laurence Boswell
(3) Otheyboy Boswell Jones
(4) persons unknown being any person other than the named
Defendants who has already moved onto the land (as definedIn this order) and is now living on the land and who intends to
Take any of the steps prohibited by this order (either by Themselves or by asking or instructing or allowing or Contracting another person)
(5) persons unknown being any person other than the named Defendants who has not already moved onto the land and whoIs not currently living on the land (as defined in this order) But who intends to move onto and live on the land (whetherThat be in a caravan, a mobile home or some other structure) And/or intends to take any of the steps prohibited by this Order (either by themselves or by asking or instructing or Allowing or contracting another person).
Defendants
Interim Injunction Order
Interpretation of this order
“Land” means, and refers to, the land known as Land and building known as being Midgeland Road, Blackpool, FY4 5JA (North of School Road and East of Midgeland Road, Blackpool), and which is registered at the Land Registry with title number LAN239786 and which is shown marked in red on the map attached to this Order.
Penal notice
If you the above named defendants (Alice Ester Beale, Laurence Boswell, and Otheyboy Boswell Jones) and/or persons unknown as described above do not comply with this order you may be held to be in contempt of court and you may be imprisoned or fined or your assets may be seized.
Any other person who knows of this order and does anything Which helps or permits the defendants to breach this orderMay also be held in contempt of court and may be imprisoned,Fined or have their assets seized.
Important notice to the defendants
This Order prohibits you from doing the acts set out in this Order. You should read this Order carefully. You are advised to consult a solicitor as soon as possible. You have a right to apply to ask the Court to vary or discharge this Order. A Defendant who is ordered not to do something must not do it themselves or in any other way. They must not do it through others acting on their behalf or on their instructions or with their encouragement (including any third parties or independent contractors).If you disobey this Order, you may be found guilty of Contempt of Court and you may be sent to prison or fined or your assets may be seized.
Upon the Claimant’s claim of 14 May 2026 for an injunction pursuant to section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (“the Claim”).
And upon the Claimant’s application of 15 May 2026 for an urgent interim injunctionpursuant to section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (“the Application”).
And upon reading the Application Notice, the Witness Statements of Mr Craig Walker, Mr Ryan Unsworth, Ms. Susan Parker and Ms Dawn Goodall(and the Exhibits to those Witness Statements) dated 14 May 2026 and the Outline Submissions of the Claimant
And upon the Claimant undertaking to (a) issue the Details of Claim by 4pm on Monday 18 May 2026; (b) serve the documents referred to in paragraph 7 of this Order upon the Defendants as soon as reasonably practicable; and (c) to provide a note of the judgment given orally on 15 May 2026 by the means specified in paragraph 10 of this Order.
And upon hearing from counsel for the Claimant, Mr Andrew Fraser-Urquhart KC at the hearing of the Application on 15 May 2026.
And upon no defendants appearing in person or through representatives or otherwise.
It is ordered
1. Pursuant to CPR 23.7(4), permission is granted for the Application to be heard notwithstanding the fact that no notice has been given, and the Application has not yet been sealed, as, in the circumstances of the case, the urgency and the likelihood of the purpose of the Order being frustrated if notice was given, the Claimant was entitled to bring this application without notice.
The injunction
2. With immediate effect, and until further order, the Defendants either by themselves or by instructing, encouraging or permitting any other person (including any third parties or independent contractors) must not:
(i) Bring onto the Land any further caravans, mobile homes or structures for the purposes of residential occupation or any other use which is in breach of planning control.
(ii) Move onto and live on the Land (where they have not done so already by the date of this Order).
(iii) Carry out any further works on the Land including (but not limited to) any building or engineering operations, the clearance or levelling of any land, the laying of any hardstanding or hardcore or materials and/or the erection of any fencing.
(iv) Enable, encourage or facilitate anyone other than the named Defendants, and their children, to live on the Land.
(v) Deposit on the Land any waste materials, hardcore or similar substances for any purpose, including the creation or laying of hardstanding or hard surfaces in connection with the stationing of caravans or mobile homes for residential occupation or any other use which is in breach of planning control.
(vi) Form or create any paths or roadways.
(vii) Install or connect any services, utilities or infrastructure including but not limited to sewerage, water, sanitary facilities or electricity for the purposes of residential occupation.
(viii) Further sub-divide the Land.
(ix) Bring onto, or keep or store on, the Land any vehicles, plant and/or machinery other than those present as of the date of this Order.
Costs of the application
3. The costs of the Application are reserved to be dealt with by the Judge who tries this Claim.
Variation or discharge or extension of this order
4. The Defendants or any of them may apply to the Court at any time to vary or discharge or extend this Order, but if any of the Defendants wish to do so, they must first inform the Claimant's solicitors in writing at least 48 hours beforehand at the address provided below.
5. The Claimant may apply to the Court to extend or vary this Order, or for further directions, but if the Claimant wishes to do so, it must first give each of the Defendants at least 48-hours’ notice in writing.
Further directions
6. Pursuant to CPR 6.15 and 6.27, permission for alternative service of the documents specified below in respect of the Defendants is granted.
7. Service of (1) this Order and (2) the sealed Claim Form, the Application Notice and the evidence lodged in support of the Application on the Defendants shall be affected by the Claimant affixing copies of (1) the Order and (2) when sealed, the sealed Claim Form, Application Notice and the evidence lodged in support of the Application in transparent waterproof envelopes at conspicuous locations on the entrance gate to the Land.
8. The Claimant shall also provide hard copies of each of those documents for each of the named Defendants and place those copies on the Land by affixing them in transparent waterproof envelopes to the entrance gate to the Land.
9. The need for personal service of this Order is dispensed with in relation to the Defendants.
10. The Claimant shall also email a copy of those documents to the First Defendant and also the Planning Agent, Chris Standring, Consultancy Services, understood to be acting for the First, Second and Third Defendants. The Claimant shall also publish a sealed copy of this Order on the Claimant’s Planning Enforcement webpage (where details including the time, place and date of any hearing shall also be published). It shall post details of any further hearings on that webpage.
11. Subject to further order, copies of any future documentation may be validly served on the Defendants in the ways specified in paragraph seven and eight above.
12. Pursuant to CPR 6.15(4):
(i) The Claim Form will be deemed served on the Defendants on the day after the sealed Claim Form has been served on the Defendants in accordance with paragraph seven above. The date on which all envelopes have been so affixed in accordance with paragraph nine is to be specified on any envelope; and
(ii) The period for filing an Acknowledgement of Service by the Defendants shall be 14 days after the date of deemed service of the Claim Form.
13. Should the Claimant become aware of the identity of any of the persons currently encompassed within the Fourth and Fifth Defendants, it shall apply, as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, to join that individual to these proceedings as a named defendant.
14. Pursuant to CPR 40.7(1) this Order takes effect from the date it was made by the Court.
15. The return date hearing will take place on Friday 5 June 2026 at 10am, time allowed 2.5 hours, at the Civil Justice Centre in Manchester (“the Return Date Hearing”).
16. At the return date, the Court will consider
(i) whether or not the terms of the existing injunction should be continued, or discharged, or varied; or
(ii) whether or not the defendants ought to be ordered to:(i) Cease the residential use of the land by the Defendants and any other persons;(ii) Remove from the land all caravans, mobile homes or structures for the purposes of residential occupation; and/or
(iii) whether or not the Court ought to order an expedited trial of the claim, and if so the directions to be given and a date for such trial.
17. The Defendants shall file at Court and serve on the Claimant the evidence they seek to rely by 4pm on Friday 29 May 2026.
18. The Claimants shall file at Court and serve on the Defendants the evidence they seek to rely by 4pm on Friday 2 June 2026 the return date hearing.
19. The contact details for the Claimant and the Court are as follows:
(i) Claimant: isaac.nicholson@dwf.law; Telephone: 0333 320 2220
(ii) Court: manchester.kb@justice.gov.uk;Telephone: 0161 240 5313
By the Court
Made on 15 May 2026