West Midlands

Appeal: Holiday cabins refused at Warwickshire fishery

10.01.2019

An inspector has refused permission for two holiday cabins to provide overnight accommodation at a popular fishery because of harm to green belt openness – despite agreeing that they would be ‘an...

Appeal: Private need for affordable home not covered by green belt exception

10.01.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has turned down plans to build a home in the Warwickshire green belt for the appellant's personal reasons, ruling that it could not be considered affordable housing under NPPF paragraph 145(...

Birmingham Smithfield CGI / Birmingham City Council

Birmingham announces partner for Smithfield development

10.01.2019

Laura Edgar

Birmingham City Council has announced Lendlease as its development partner to deliver its plans for the 17-hectare Birmingham Smithfield site.

Appeal: Additional pub could make evening activity ‘bubble over’ into crime

08.01.2019

Matt Moody

Plans to convert a vacant former supermarket in Worcester city centre into a pub have been blocked, after an inspector ruled that its combination with existing businesses could cause evening activity to lead...

Coventry secures fine for failure to comply with enforcement notice

08.01.2019

Laura Edgar

Coventry | Development Management & Enforcement | planning enforcement | West Midlands

The owner of The Farmhouse Restaurant on Beechwood Avenue has been fined for failing to comply with a planning enforcement notice to remove a marquee that has been in use for the past two years.

Birmingham shatters new homes target

13.12.2018

Huw Morris

Birmingham | Housing | West Midlands

The number of new homes built in Birmingham during the past three years has exceeded annual targets by 108 per cent.

Birmingham joins Secured By Design scheme to tackle crime

03.12.2018

Huw Morris

Birmingham City Council has become the first local authority in the country to sign up to a police initiative for crime prevention standards in all its new social housing schemes.

Appeal: ‘Sweat equity’ makes rural worker’s home viable

16.11.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for a rural worker’s dwelling at an equestrian business in Shropshire, accepting the appellant’s argument that ‘sweat equity’ would lower the build...

Illegal scrap yard / South Staffordshire Council

POCA used to recoup thousands from illegal scrapyard

08.11.2018

Laura Edgar

The owner of an unauthorised scrapyard in South Staffordshire has been directed to pay a £150,000 confiscation order after failing to comply with an enforcement notice.

Appeal: Replacement green belt farmhouse blocked despite improved openness

01.11.2018

Matt Moody

conversion | Green Belt | openness | Regeneration | West Midlands

Plans for the replacement of a Warwickshire farmhouse would be an inappropriate green belt development, an inspector has ruled, despite the appellant's plans to improve the site's openness by...

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