North West

A barn can be converted into a three-bedroom house in the Lake District after the National Park Authority did not refer to any development policies in its refusal.

Retrospective permission for an ATM in the window of a Blackpool café has been refused after an inspector ruled that the lack of security bollards would make it susceptible to ram-raids.

A dilapidated horticultural nursery on the Wirral Peninsula was in solely agricultural use and therefore not ‘previously developed land’, an inspector has ruled, dismissing the appellant’s...

Wirral Borough Council has been ordered to pay costs after it cited failure to ‘promote a positive image of the area’ by refusing permission for a lap-dancing club, contrary to the advice of its...