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[1990] Ch 623 (CA). The claimant local authority bough a piece of land adjacent to a house with a view to building a road on it. The defendant houseowner treated the land as part of his garden, and cultivated it. He did this knowing that the authority planned to develop the land eventually. When the authority did try to recover the land, some 40 years after purchase, the Court of Appeal held that they could not do so. The houseowner had taken adverse possession. Although for adverse possession to succeed the squatter must show that he intended to take possession, he was not obliged to show that he intended to take possession indefinitely.