Community Infrastructure

Appeal: 'Special circumstances' at nursery in five-year green belt battle

15.03.2019

A horticultural nursery in Berkshire can install a public sales area contrary to green belt regulations, an inspector has ruled, following a five-year legal battle that saw an intervention from Theresa...

Legal briefs: SoS concedes Purley development decision was flawed; South London homeowner fined for illegal extension

15.03.2019

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 9 March-15 March, 2019

Appeal: Conversion of artists’ workshop to ‘fine dining restaurant’ blocked

13.03.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector was not impressed by ‘unclear’ plans to convert a warehouse in Hackney currently in use as an artists’ workshop into a ‘fine dining restaurant and chill-out zone’ .

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Appeal: Shipping container café allowed despite ‘design shortcomings’

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

Plans for a café composed of two converted shipping containers on a brownfield plot in Wakefield can go ahead, after an inspector ruled that the proposed ‘positive and effective use of the site’ outweighed...

Appeals round-up: No evidence that ‘oppressive’ flats would be tailored for disabled; ‘Densely overgrown’ land preferred to school facilities

22.02.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 16 February-22 February, 2019

Appeal: ‘Densely overgrown’ land preferred to school facilities

19.02.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused a school’s plans to develop ‘untamed’ land in North London for sport and teaching facilities, finding unacceptable harm to the surrounding conservation area.

Appeals round-up: Pub with dance floor ‘not a restaurant’; Council must pay costs for misinterpreting GPDO

15.02.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 9 February-15 February, 2019

Appeal: 'Tallest school in Britain' blocked on design grounds

15.02.2019

Matt Moody

A ten-storey secondary school in Bromley has been rejected despite a 'pressing need' for school spaces, after an inspector ruled that a focus on a 'demanding educational brief' had yielded a design that...

Legal briefs: Ireland’s climate change strategy under fire in court; Ruling on ‘aggrieved person’ in Aberdeenshire quarry wrangle

25.01.2019

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 19 January-25 January, 2019

Cash to revive England’s coastal heritage

23.01.2019

Laura Edgar

coastal communities | Community Infrastructure | England | Heritage | Jake Berry MP

Projects from the Isle of Wight to Blackpool will received a share of £1 million from the government’s Coastal Revival Fund.

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