Local authority's decision that proposed asset of community value had not been used for community purposes in the "recent past" upheld by the High Court

An article on the decision of the High Court in R (Edgar) v Bournemouth Borough Council (unreported, October 2013) in which the claimant was refused permission to challenge the council's refusal to register a site as an asset of community value under the Localism Act 2011. It did so on the basis that an application had not been made promptly and lacked merit. The local authority had given proper reasons for its decision that the site had not been used for community purposes in the "recent past".