Yorkshire

26.03.2020

Laura Edgar

Coronavirus | leeds city council | Policy & Politics | Yorkshire

Leeds City Council has announced that its planning and sustainable development service will continue as a reduced service during the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown.

Farnley Lane, Otley, flooded during Storm Dennis / Leeds City Council

Leeds flood scheme to go ahead

19.03.2020

Laura Edgar

Leeds City Council has granted planning permission for a scheme to protect Otley from flooding.

Artist’s impression of the Eastern Gateway / Calderdale Council

Plans for Halifax redevelopment submitted

09.03.2020

Laura Edgar

Designs for the redevelopment of parts of Halifax town centre have been submitted to Calderdale Council.

Appeal: 18-storey tower held back by affordable housing agreement

28.02.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has cited an incomplete ‘bespoke agreement’ for variable affordable housing in refusing plans for an 18-storey tower comprising 151 flats in Leeds, after overturning four of the council’s five...

Appeal: Pubs in other villages justify residential conversion

28.02.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved the conversion of a listed pub in Yorkshire into a home despite dissent from local people, citing the fact that a darts team that had competed at the pub had been able to transfer...

Appeal: Crematorium in Leeds green belt not justified

20.02.2020

Matt Moody

The UK's leading crematoria developer has failed to persuade an inspector that 'very special circumstances' existed to justify a new crematorium in the Leeds green belt, after 'flawed evidence' from both...

Supreme Court rules that visual impact is not an obligatory consideration when assessing green belt openness

05.02.2020

Martin Read

England | Minerals | Planning Law | Yorkshire

The court’s decision today (5 February) overturns a Court of Appeal ruling on the issue, and asserts that openness does not imply freedom from all forms of potential development.

Appeal: Biosecurity concerns do not justify AONB livestock quarantine

31.01.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for an isolation building for sick animals at a farm in rural Yorkshire despite the appellant's argument that it was 'essential for improving biosecurity', citing harm to the...

Drax-CCGT-1-unit-1800MW-battery-200MW / Drax Power

Legal challenge launched over Leadsom’s approval of a gas power station

30.01.2020

Laura Edgar

Environmental law charity Client Earth is taking the UK Government to the High Court following the energy secretary's approval of plans to modify coal-fired generating units to gas-powered ones at Drax Power Station, Selby.

Appeal: Car park ‘not part of built frontage’ for village infilling purposes

24.01.2020

Matt Moody

Green Belt | infill development | Rural | village infilling | Yorkshire

An inspector has rejected an appellant’s argument that a pub car park would form part of a ‘built frontage’ suitable for green belt infill development, noting that it would not always be full of cars and...

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