West Midlands

Appeal: Costs brought against appellant for ‘evolving’ housing scheme through appeals process

12.07.2019

An inspector has ordered a developer to pay costs for using the appeals process to ‘evolve’ its application to build 60 homes on brownfield land in Staffordshire instead of submitting a fresh application....

Enforcement: Unauthorised student flats meet local policy criteria

02.07.2019

Matt Moody

Enforcement action against a building in Leamington Spa containing 27 bedrooms across four flats that was built without permission has been quashed, after an inspector found that the building complied with...

£31m funding awarded to Coventry as it prepares to be UK City of Culture

01.07.2019

Lydia Till

City of Culture | Coventry | Economic Growth | West Midlands

West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has given the go-ahead for funding as Coventry gets ready for its role as the United Kingdom’s City of Culture in 2021.

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Appeal: 227 more homes allowed with no new access

27.06.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has allowed plans for 227 homes in Stoke-on-Trent that would be accessed through an existing housing estate, ruling that off-site road improvements proposed as part of the scheme meant it would...

Appeal: Rooftop play area would harm Birmingham conservation area

27.06.2019

Matt Moody

childcare | conservation area | Heritage | roofspace | West Midlands

Plans to add a rooftop play area disguised as a mansard roof to a nursery in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter would harm the surrounding conservation area, an inspector has ruled.

£2bn plan to upgrade Midlands rail network submitted to DfT

26.06.2019

Laura Edgar

Midlands Connect has submitted plans for the region’s rail network to the Department for Transport (DfT). It outlines up to £2 billion of new and improved infrastructure to be completed between 2024 and 2033.

Appeal: Link to garage would make house too large to be affordable

21.06.2019

Matt Moody

A condition limiting the internal floor area of a Shropshire house to 100 square metres is necessary to make sure it remains appropriate to the local affordable housing market, an inspector has ruled,...

Enforcement: 1966 planning condition negates bingo hall conversion

21.06.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against the use of a former bingo hall in Romford as a banqueting hall despite acknowledging that both uses fell within use class D2, citing a condition attached to...

Appeal: Council must pay costs for refusing 147-home scheme

07.06.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has ordered Warwick District Council to pay costs after it failed to demonstrate how plans it had refused for 147 homes on green belt land west of Warwick would have been harmful.

Appeal: Retrospective consent to demolish ‘dangerous’ chimney refused

31.05.2019

Matt Moody

conservation area | Health | Heritage | retrospective permission | West Midlands

An inspector has refused retrospective permission for the removal of a chimney in Walsall that the building’s owner argued was ‘dangerous and at risk of collapse’, citing unacceptable harm to the character...

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