Sports & Recreation

Legal briefs: Game on over new Luton stadium consent; Trump digs deep over failed wind case

15.11.2019

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 9 November-15 November 2019

Enforcement: Self-assembly skateboard ramp is a building for planning purposes

15.11.2019

Matt Moody

A reporter has upheld an enforcement notice to remove a self-assemble skateboard ramp from a garden on the grounds that it is a building and therefore requires planning permission.

Luton vows to vigorously defend judicial review of stadium permission

11.11.2019

Huw Morris

England | Luton council | Sports & Recreation

Luton Council is ‘entirely confident’ in its decision to grant planning permission for a major mixed-use scheme including a new football stadium and will ‘vigorously defend’ a judicial review.

Appeal: Poultry farm scuppered by risk to gliders

08.11.2019

Simon Wicks

Plans for a poultry farm next to an airfield used by a gliding club have been dismissed after an aviation expert said its buildings would “substantially reduce” the chance of a safe forced landing following...

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Bradford urges Shapps to save historic tunnel

30.10.2019

Huw Morris

The leader of Bradford Council has asked transport secretary Grant Shapps to intervene urgently in what she says are ‘unauthorised actions’ by Highways England at a historic tunnel.

Planning application submitted for £70m Alexander Stadium redevelopment

16.10.2019

Prithvi Pandya

A £70 million planning application has been submitted to Birmingham City Council to redevelop Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr.

Appeal: Mobile home at BMX facility blocked despite 1,500-signature petition

15.10.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has invoked green belt harm in rejecting plans for a mobile home at a popular BMX facility in Chelmsford, notwithstanding a 1,500-signature petition and claims that it would have to close if...

Appeal: No “very special circumstances’ at football club without legal agreement

13.09.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector found ‘very special circumstances’ in considering plans for affordable homes to enable facilities improvements at Eltham Town FC, but refused permission because no legal agreement was submitted...

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Appeal: Holiday cabins not for ‘genuine outdoor activities’

03.09.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused plans for four holiday cabins in the Somerset green belt, ruling that they were more likely to be used by Bristol Airport passengers than those ‘interested in genuine outdoor...

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Appeal: 488m2 private dance studio deemed strictly ‘modest ancillary building’

03.09.2019

Matt Moody

AONB | Rural | South East | Sports & Recreation | SPORTS FACILITY

An inspector has approved plans for a 488 square-metre dance studio with a full-sized ballroom in the High Weald AONB, ruling that it would appear ‘modest’ within the 75,000sq m curtilage of the...

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