Community Infrastructure

Planner Live North: Creating resilient towns

30.05.2021

Matt Moody

Session: How to create resilient town centres

Appeals round-up: 254-home scheme would ‘create its own identity’; Marquee for corporate Christmas parties allowed in green belt

28.05.2021

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 22 May-28 May, 2021

Appeals round-up: Dropped affordable housing offer not justified by pandemic; Major mixed-use Leicestershire scheme rejected

14.05.2021

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 8 May-15 May, 2021

Appeal: ‘Very important’ village pub will not make way for houses

14.05.2021

Matt Moody

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An inspector has rejected plans to demolish The Dog and Badger pub in Bedfordshire to make way for five homes, noting that the level of interest from local residents ‘strongly indicated’ that the pub was...

Appeal: Homes refused on Welsh language grounds

07.05.2021

Matt Moody

An inspector has blocked plans for six homes in a Welsh village with a proportion of Welsh language speakers more than three times higher than the national average, citing concerns that the homes would not...

Appeals round-up: National park airstrip found harmful to protected birds; Management plan justifies airsoft in AONB ancient woodland

30.04.2021

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 24 April-30 April, 2021

Appeal: Inspector cites 1902 Act in refusing crematorium

23.04.2021

Matt Moody

An inspector has sided with Central Bedfordshire Council in refusing permission for a crematorium on the edge of Letchworth Garden City, despite ruling that one of its policies was ‘of little, if any,...

Appeals round-up: Council to pay for ignoring language and highways advice; Motorway services allowed after a 25-year conflict

16.04.2021

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 9 April-16 April, 2021

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Appeal: Council to pay for ignoring language and highways advice

16.04.2021

Matt Moody

Plans for 30 homes on brownfield land in Bangor can go ahead, an inspector has ruled, ordering the council to pay costs for unreasonably ignoring its Welsh language unit and highways authority.

Appeal: Pub conversion denied following 10-year battle

16.04.2021

Matt Moody

A community group’s decade-long battle to save a 239-year-old pub from its multimillionaire owner’s plans to convert it has won the backing of an inspector, who found that it could still reopen as a viable...

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