ACV

Appeals round-up: Claim of traveller discrimination ‘not at all persuasive’; ACV pub conversion allowed after botched sale

18.10.2019

Roger Milne

ACV | asset of community value | Demographics & Population Growth | emerging plan | Finance & Viability | Health | Housing | living conditions | permitted development | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Planning Law | pubs | space standards | SPORTS FACILITY | travellers | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 12 October-18 October, 2019
Appeal: ACV pub conversion allowed after botched sale

18.10.2019

Matt Moody

ACV | asset of community value | Community Infrastructure | Finance & Viability | pubs | South East

A Hertfordshire pub can be converted into two homes despite being registered as an asset of community value (ACV), after an inspector ruled that it was ‘unlikely to prosper’ as a verbal agreement to sell it...
Appeal: ‘Determined’ community group prevents historic pub conversion

15.10.2019

Matt Moody

ACV | asset of community value | Community Engagement | Finance & Viability | Marketing | pubs | South East

A community group that created a business plan to save an historic Hampshire pub from conversion into a five-bedroom home has successfully persuaded an inspector that it is a ‘valued community facility’....
Appeal: Village’s last remaining pub saved from conversion

25.04.2019

Matt Moody

ACV | asset of community value | Community Infrastructure | East Midlands | Finance & Viability | financial viability | pubs

An inspector has refused plans for the residential conversion of a pub in Nottinghamshire after a local community group indicated that it had reached an agreement to buy the business, despite numerous short-...
Appeal: ‘No prospect of viability’ despite pub owners’ best endeavours

11.04.2019

Matt Moody

ACV | asset of community value | Community Infrastructure | East of England | Finance & Viability | financial viability | pubs

An inspector has approved plans to convert a Suffolk pub recently registered as an asset of community value into a home, ruling that its location meant it would likely never become a viable business.
...
Appeals round-up: Leeds green space shortage precludes 46-home scheme; No consent for residential conversion of pub rebuilt after fire

23.11.2018

Matt Moody

ACV | allotments | Community Infrastructure | enforcement notice | Green Belt | green space | Health | Heritage | heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | listed building | motorway | Planning Law | previously developed land | Regeneration | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 17 November-23 November 2018
Legal briefs: Islington nets huge confiscation order over illegal conversion; South Downs road rage

01.06.2018

Roger Milne

ACV | Confiscation Order | Development Management & Enforcement | Heritage | high court | Housing | Infrastructure - Energy | Infrastructure - Transport | National Park | Planning Law | Public Realm | UK | wind farm

A round-up of legal news: 26 May-1 June, 2018
Protecting locally valued assets

29.04.2014

Saskia Molecamp

ACV | assets of community value | Community Engagement | Heritage | Legal | local assets | Social infrastructure | UK

As a measure to give local communities greater control over the protection of valued local facilities and other sites, the Localism Act 2011 provides community groups with the opportunity to nominate a local...