East Midlands

An inspector has approved a 64-home scheme on land in Lincolnshire allocated for only 49 homes, dismissing the local council’s ‘somewhat emotive language’ relating to affordable housing...

Plans to use a house near Nottingham University as a student HMO would ‘exacerbate community imbalance’ in the area, an inspector has ruled, commenting that students ‘often do not see...

An inspector has cited the revised NPPF in removing a negatively worded affordable housing condition from a 2016 housing permission, despite 'high and demonstrable' local need.

A log cabin for use as a rural worker’s dwelling on a Leicestershire farm was refused because a farmhouse occupied by the appellant’s mother already exists on the site, despite her refusal to...