Matt Moody

Appeals round-up: Social benefits of greenhouse are 'very special circumstances'; Beer garden privacy outweighs 4m play frame

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 14 September-20 September, 2019

Enforcement: Social benefits of greenhouse constitute ‘very special circumstances’

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

Community Engagement | community facility | Green Belt | very special circumstances | West Midlands

Enforcement action against a greenhouse in the garden of a listed building in Staffordshire has been quashed after an inspector found that its use by local disabled people carried greater weight than its...

Appeal: Beer garden privacy outweighs 4m play frame

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

East Midlands | Leisure & Tourism | overlooking | privacy | pubs

An inspector has blocked plans for a play frame that would directly overlook the beer garden of a neighbouring pub, finding ‘an unacceptable impact’' on patrons’ privacy.

Appeal: Demolition of Victorian school halted after 1,100-signature petition

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

demolition | Heritage | heritage asset | petition | South West

A developer who began to demolish a Victorian school in Swindon without permission has had his plans to replace the building with 10 flats blocked by an inspector, after a petition to save the building...

Appeal: Paragraph 79 home ‘exceeds highest standards of architecture’

19.09.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for a unique new home in the High Weald AONB under NPPF paragraph 79, commenting that the scheme ‘in many aspects exceeded the highest standards of architecture’.

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