Yorkshire

Appeal: Tees bridge to school playing fields would not harm heritage

18.10.2018

A Yorkshire school’s plans to create new playing fields across the river from its campus, along with a timber bridge to access them, would not harm the character of the town or its heritage assets, an...

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Enforcement: Notice quashed after tenants’ sworn statements

17.10.2018

Matt Moody

An enforcement notice against the unauthorised subdivision of a flat in Leeds has been quashed in light of sworn statements by its tenants referring to ‘a high degree of satisfaction’ with the...

Appeal: Camden pub conversion thrown on historic interest grounds

Appeal: Retired publican’s appeal to convert bar and stay in village blocked

03.10.2018

Huw Morris

Community Infrastructure | Halifax | Legal | Yorkshire

An appeal by a retired publican who wanted to convert the ground floor of her pub into residential accommodation so that she could continue to live in the community has been rejected.

Appeal: Huddersfield smoking shelter is a building, inspector rules

03.10.2018

Huw Morris

Community Infrastructure | Development Management & Enforcement | Huddersfield | Yorkshire

An enforcement notice ordering a Huddersfield pub to take down a smoking shelter has been upheld.

Appeal: Housing rejected for harm to Harrogate heritage assets

02.10.2018

Huw Morris

Heritage | Housing | Marsham Conservation Area | NPPF | Yorkshire

Outline planning permission for up to 80 homes by the Swinton Estate on the edge of a conservation area near Harrogate has been refused for potentially causing unacceptable harm to heritage assets.

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Appeal: Appeal dismissed over failure to meet listed exceptions for green belt

02.10.2018

Huw Morris

Halifax | Housing | Stoneleigh Farm | Yorkshire

A refusal by Calderdale Borough Council for the demolition of a property and its replacement in the green belt has been upheld by an inspector after he decided it did not meet listed exceptions.

Appeal: Students can expect adequate lighting, rules inspector

21.09.2018

Matt Moody

Plans to convert a listed former freemasons' hall in Huddersfield into 16 two-bedroom student flats have been blocked, after an inspector found that some of the flats would have no external windows or...

Road upgrades set to create homes and jobs in Yorkshire and North East

13.09.2018

Prithvi Pandya

Infrastructure - Transport | North East | Yorkshire

Three major road improvements in Yorkshire and the North East are set to pave the way for new homes and jobs for local communities.

Bradford to probe Shipley bypass potential

10.09.2018

Huw Morris

A £300,000 feasibility study into creating a bypass around the east of Shipley will be carried out by Bradford Council after the government agreed funding.

Residents reject neighbourhood plan in Hull

07.09.2018

Huw Morris

Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Yorkshire

Residents have spurned a neighbourhood plan in Hull amid claims of poor consultation.

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