Key legal question
Whether the requested subdivision of ameliorated land was justified by important reasons for the extra area outside the zoning boundary.
Extracted holding
The additional subdivision was not justified; the important reason requirement was not met.
Extracted reasoning
Subdivision requires a balancing of interests. The private interest in enlarging a garden for a neighboring residential plot was slight, while the public interest in preserving agricultural land in large, workable parcels remained significant even after the expiry of the use-change prohibition, because parcel fragmentation would promote non-agricultural belts and distort land prices.