East Midlands

Appeal: Essential need at alpaca farm outweighs green belt harm

17.08.2018

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.

Appeal: Stable conversion inappropriate in green belt

08.08.2018

Matt Moody

East Midlands | Green Belt | horses | Rural

An inspector has ruled that the conversion of a stable in Derbyshire into a dwelling would be inappropriate green belt development because the site has ‘all the hallmarks of an agricultural farmyard...

Appeal: Appeal leads to stricter condition for holiday let

26.07.2018

Matt Moody

East Midlands | holiday let | Housing | Leisure & Tourism | planning conditions

An inspector has allowed an appellant’s application to remove a planning condition prohibiting the residential use of a holiday cottage in Rutland – only to replace it with a more strictly worded...

Appeal: Green wedge fears halt 185-home Leicestershire scheme

24.07.2018

Matt Moody

East Midlands | green wedge | Housing | housing land supply | NPPF

Plans for a 185-home extension to the village of Bosworth, Leicestershire, have been blocked, after an inspector found unacceptable harm to the function of the green wedge of which the appeal site forms part...

Appeal: Accessibility and countryside loss outweighed by benefits of Notts housing proposal

19.07.2018

Huw Morris

Plans for 195 homes in Nottinghamshire have won outline planning permission following an appeal that centred on accessibility and loss of countryside.

Appeal: Dental surgery can revert to residential after scant business interest in premises

18.07.2018

Huw Morris

A South Northamptonshire dental surgery can change its use back to a residential property after an inspector decided that the move would not harm the village.

Town deal struck for Greater Grimsby

05.07.2018

Laura Edgar

The government has announced that a £67 million Stage 1 Town Deal has been agreed with Greater Grimsby, which could deliver almost 10,000 new homes in the area.

Brokenshire in champion role for Midlands Engine

04.07.2018

Laura Edgar

Communities secretary James Brokenshire has confirmed that he will drive forward the government’s plans to ‘fire up’ the Midlands as an engine for UK growth as its Ministerial Champion.

Appeal: Flats next to railway line would have ‘oppressive’ outlook

29.06.2018

Matt Moody

East Midlands | Environmental | Infrastructure - Transport | living conditions | noise impact

An inspector has refused plans to convert a retail unit in Leicester into nine studio flats, ruling that the adjacent railway line would create a ‘restrictive and oppressive’ outlook for...

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