East Midlands

Appeal: Dilapidated cricket ground is not an ‘existing’ use

17.10.2018

Too much time has passed for a derelict cricket pavilion to be considered an ‘existing’ leisure use, an inspector has ruled, and plans to replace it would constitute a new building in the...

Appeal: World heritage site concerns halt Derbyshire factory expansion

12.10.2018

Matt Moody

The housing secretary has blocked major plans for the expansion of a Derbyshire boiler factory plus additional housing and office space, citing harm to the nearby Derwent Valley Mills world heritage site....

Appeal: Leicestershire village homes plan dismissed for accumulated harm

08.10.2018

Huw Morris

Outline planning permission for up to 66 homes at Rearsby, Leicestershire, has been rejected after an inspector ruled that the accumulation of harm from the scheme was not sustainable development.

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Appeal: Tata Steel homes plan in Northamptonshire village blocked

05.10.2018

Huw Morris

East Midlands | Housing | joint core strategy | NPPF | Tata steel

Outline planning permission for up to 31 homes next to the village of Stanion, Northamptonshire, have been dismissed for failing to comply with a joint core strategy focusing on growth towns and national...

Appeal: Camden pub conversion thrown on historic interest grounds

Appeal: Pub conversion dismissed for undermining local retail vitality

04.10.2018

Huw Morris

Business & Enterprise | Community Infrastructure | East Midlands | Edwinstowe

Two appeals to convert a pub in Edwinstowe into a food store and residential accommodation have been dismissed because of the effect on a district centre’s vitality and viability.

Appeal: Enforcement notice upheld over fenced-off public land

28.09.2018

Matt Moody

Community Infrastructure | East Midlands | enforcement notice | PUBLIC OPEN SPACE

An inspector has upheld an enforcement notice against a Leicestershire homeowner who fenced off an area of public land in his cul-de-sac and incorporated it into his garden.

Rail Central / Ashfield Land and Gazeley

DCO application submitted for Northampton rail freight scheme

26.09.2018

East Midlands | Infrastructure - Transport | Northamptonshire | NSIP | rail freight

Ashfield Land and Gazeley have lodged a Development Consent Order (DCO) application with the Planning Inspectorate for a strategic rail freight interchange scheme in Northamptonshire.

Appeal: Community facilities fail to outweigh spatial strategy conflict

24.09.2018

Matt Moody

community facility | Community Infrastructure | East Midlands | paragraph 79 | spatial strategy

A 12-home scheme in Nottinghamshire that would enable several community facilities has been rejected for conflicting with the council's spatial strategy, despite the site’s location next to the...

Appeal: Essential need at alpaca farm outweighs green belt harm

17.08.2018

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | East Midlands | Green Belt | rural worker's dwelling

An inspector has allowed plans for an agricultural worker’s home at an alpaca farm in the Nottingham green belt, deciding that the unpredictable breeding pattern of alpacas created an essential need...

Voluntary Right to Buy pilot launches in the Midlands

16.08.2018

Laura Edgar

Housing secretary James Brokenshire has today (16 August) launched the Midlands Voluntary Right to Buy pilot, which he said would provide housing association tenants with the first step to getting on the property ladder.

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