West Midlands
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15.01.2020Birmingham City Council has published its draft transport plan, which sets out its plans to limit the access private cars have to the city with no through trips.
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19.12.2019An inspector has blocked plans for 154 homes in Staffordshire despite the council’s housing supply of just 1.54 years, citing harm to the setting of the Peak District National Park, whose boundary was more...
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19.12.2019An empty shop unit close to Birmingham city centre can be converted into an amusement arcade despite police concerns that it could increase crime in an area already subject to a Public Space Protection Order...
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12.12.2019A Leamington Spa nightclub owner has won permission to build a deconstructed, mirror-clad 'invisible house' on land adjacent to his existing award-winning home, which was completed this year after a decade-...
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04.12.2019Warwick District Council has granted outline planning permission for up to 2,500 homes and 4,000 square metres of mixed-use floor space.
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29.11.2019The owner of a property in the West Midlands Green Belt has been allowed to extend his garden into an adjacent field, after an inspector ruled that the list of changes of use under NPPF paragraph 146(e) was...
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15.11.2019Business & Enterprise | GPDO | office to residential | permitted development | Policy & Politics | West MidlandsAn inspector has made an office block in Birmingham eligible for conversion to flats under permitted development by removing a condition applied to it in 2006, despite council concerns about the building’s...
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15.11.2019Environmental | GPDO | Health | living conditions | music venues | noise impact | permitted development | Policy & Politics | West MidlandsAn inspector has refused prior approval to convert offices next to two music venues in Birmingham into flats, ruling that the impact of noise on the living conditions of future occupants was an ‘implicit‘...
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30.10.2019austerity | community wealth building | England | Inclusive economy | Policy & Politics | Professional Development | Regeneration | Regeneration | West MidlandsJenna Langford became 2019 RTPI Young Planner of the Year in no small part 'for assisting people to take up planning as a profesison through the Planning Futures programme'. Here she talks to Kieran Blaydes...
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24.10.2019The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has bought former industrial land in Sandwell to turn it into a 750-home community.
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