Rural

Appeal: Quarry restoration works do not justify green belt home

13.03.2020

An inspector has rejected plans for a self-build home in the green belt that would fund the restoration of a nearby abandoned quarry, ruling that the site could not be considered ‘previously developed land...

Appeal: Derelict horticultural nursery deemed not PDL

06.03.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused plans to build 61 homes on the site of a former horticultural nursery in Kent, rejecting the appellants’ comparisons to a similar 2015 High Court case concerning the definition of...

Appeals round-up: Home allowed in light of council’s second-worst HDT results; Renewable energy production amounts to ‘very special circumstances’

28.02.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 22 February-28 February, 2020

Appeal: Renewable energy production amounts to ‘very special circumstances’

28.02.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for 67 solar panels in the Hertfordshire green belt, ruling that the scheme’s ‘valuable contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions’ amounted to very special...

Appeals round-up: TV series plaques would devalue commemoration of real people; Co-living apartments allowed despite space concerns

20.02.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 15 February-21 February, 2020

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...

Appeals round-up: Council 'worthy of admonishment' over 'perilous' listed cottage; Noise from ultrasound scanners 'extremely limited'

14.02.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 8 February-14 February, 2020

Appeal: ‘Very special circumstances’ apply in innovative green belt housing scheme

14.02.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to replace an agricultural complex in the Buckinghamshire countryside with a housing scheme based on an “‘innovative design idiom’ can go ahead, after an inspector found cumulative ‘very special...

Legal briefs: Visual impact not an obligatory consideration in green belt openness; £160K fine for damage to Warwickshire scheduled monument

07.02.2020

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 1 February-7 February 2020.

Appeals round-up: CAMRA evidence counts against pub’s illegal conversion; Housing allowed next to motorway despite air quality concerns

07.02.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 1 February-7 February, 2020

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