South East

Fareham Borough Council has been penalised for acting unreasonably by basing its estimate of five years of housing land supply on an out-of-date core strategy when refusing a 120-home scheme.

An inspector has refused plans to convert the ground floor of a house in Crawley into a daycare nursery for up to 70 children, ruling that the use of the garden as a play area would disrupt neighbours'...

A zoo in Ware, Hertfordshire that did not seek planning consent until three months after it opened has been refused permission at appeal, after an inspector ruled that no special circumstances existed to...

Sajid Javid has overruled an inspector’s decision to approve two appeals for schemes totalling 760 homes in Thatcham, west Berkshire, finding ‘insufficient evidence’ that the delivery of...