Saidla v. Stratham Planning Board

This appeal from superior court presents the issue whether a Master (Charles T. Gallagher, Esq.) correctly ruled that the plaintiffs had a right under a Town of Stratham subdivision regulation to prevent the defendant Stratham Planning Board from approving a cluster housing development on adjacent property. We reverse.

The plaintiffs, G. Whitney Saidla and Pamela Saidla, own an eight-acre parcel of land in Stratham next to a seventy-acre tract owned by the defendants John B. Dabney and David Forman. In 1978, the then-owners of both tracts, William Leahy, Jr., and Margaret Leahy, discussed with…