West Midlands

19.01.2021

Laura Edgar

Coventry | coventry city council | recycling | Waste & Recycling | West Midlands

Coventry City Council’s planning committee has backed plans for a regional materials recycling facility on former allotments in the city.

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Appeal: Military tunnel complex can become wine warehouse

15.01.2021

Matt Moody

Plans have been approved to convert Drakelow Tunnels, the largest underground space in the UK open to the public, into a warehouse for 10,000 tonnes of wine, a bespoke bat roost and a museum, after an...

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Appeal: Co-housing scheme would harm Polish war camp

18.12.2020

Matt Moody

A not-for-profit co-housing project at a post-war military camp in Staffordshire that would have involved the conversion of some of the site’s historic buildings has been rejected by an inspector.

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Brownfield institute gains the go-ahead

16.12.2020

Laura Edgar

city of wolverhampton council | national brownfield institute | Regeneration | West Midlands | wolverhampton

Planning permission for the £17.5 million National Brownfield Institute has been granted by the City of Wolverhampton Council.

Application to alter part of national cycle route submitted

10.12.2020

Laura Edgar

cyling | Infrastructure - Transport | National Cycle Network | Sustrans | West Midlands

Sustrans has submitted a planning application to three local authorities to reroute a section of Route 41 of the National Cycle Network.

Mixed-use development approved in Digbeth

10.12.2020

Laura Edgar

Digbeth | Housing | mixed-use | West Midlands

Birmingham City Council has granted planning permission for up to 2,000 homes, creative workspace, and leisure and retail amenities near the Grand Union Canal.

More than 2,000 homes approved in Coventry

30.11.2020

Laura Edgar

Coventry | coventry city council | Housing | West Midlands

Coventry City Council has granted outline planning permission for a residential development of up to 2,400 homes, including extra-care accommodation, which will be located on the 350-acre Eastern Green site.

Appeal: Wind energy policy deferred to non-existent plan

25.11.2020

Matt Moody

Environmental | lacuna | neighbourhood planning | West Midlands | wind power

An inspector has approved plans for two ‘micro turbines’ at a business park near Worcester, after discovering that the local plan had ‘created a lacuna’ by deferring renewable energy policy to a...

If design guides are to become a staple of communities, what role can housing play?

19.11.2020

Arthur Tsang

Bournville | Design | design code | Housing | West Midlands

Amid the debate around local design codes prompted by the planning white paper it's worth asking: Is anyone actually doing this already? Yes they are – in Bournville, Birmingham – and they're about to revise...

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Appeal: Inspector rejects noise concerns over Warwick affordable scheme

29.10.2020

Huw Morris

The redevelopment of the former Tamlea Building in Warwick into affordable homes will go ahead after an inspector rejected concerns about the impact of noise from a nearby business on future occupiers....

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