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Planning for the Future offers no reassurance about the retention and development of arts, culture, music and the night-time economy

05.10.2020

Shain Shapiro and Tara Tank

The government's proposed planning reforms have a huge blind spot when it comes to cultural activities and the night-time economy, argue Shain Shapiro and Tara Tank

Scottish Planner Live: Twenty minute neighbourhoods

02.10.2020

Matt Moody

Community Infrastructure | Planner Live Online | Scotland | scottish planner live | twenty minute neighbourhoods

Neighbourhoods where residents can meet most of their daily needs within a twenty minute walk are the key to creating healthier communities, panellists at the Scottish Planner Live...

Appeal: Inspector backs Kent village restaurant demolition for retirement flats

25.09.2020

Huw Morris

Plans to demolish a restaurant and build 14 retirement apartments in Kent have been allowed after an inspector ruled the venue was not a community facility.

Appeal: 'Sympathetic' home allowed in privately-owned community open space

23.09.2020

Simon Wicks

A 'modest' four-bedroom home with a boathouse can be built in the grounds of a listed house in south east London, despite intruding on a designated community open space.

Economists call for government to level up North’s health and jobs

21.09.2020

Huw Morris

The government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda in the North of England will only succeed if it supports people employed in the sectors hardest hit by the Covid-19 crisis and helps to improve health and wellbeing, according to leading economists.

Legal briefs: Court of Appeal bid to overturn permission for Suffolk school rejected; Consultancy conflict of interest case over Dublin development

18.09.2020

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 12 September –18 September 2020

Appeals round-up: Approved housing will support marginally viable pub; Airbnb use for undersized flat approved

11.09.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 5 September-11 September, 2020

Appeal: Approved housing will support marginally viable pub

10.09.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to convert a marginally viable pub in Norfolk that closed in 2018 into a house were rejected by an inspector, who ruled that the 100 new homes approved for the village would ‘increase the need for the...

Appeals round-up: Crouch Hill station regeneration plan dismissed; Loss of staff accommodation would harm pub's future viability

04.09.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 29 August-4 September, 2020

Appeal: Loss of staff accommodation would harm pub’s viability

04.09.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against the conversion of a West London pub’s upper floors from staff accommodation to a private flat, ruling that a smaller trading area limited its ability to...

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