Where land is developed through a joint venture using a nominee company, the joint venture participants may be treated as common vendors for the purposes of a scheme of development, notwithstanding that the nominee was the entity that held title and transferred the lots. The [name withheld] requirements for a common building scheme are not to be inflexibly and mechanically applied; regard must be had to underlying principle. Declaratory relief as to the existence of equitable obligations arising from a scheme of development may have utility in the context of statutory planning processes, even where no specific breach has yet occurred.
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