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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

Called-in: Jenrick sides with Khan over Brentford regeneration scheme

11.09.2020

Matt Moody

In approving plans for 462 new homes in Gunnersbury, the housing secretary sided with the Mayor of London, who overturned the council’s refusal of the scheme despite heritage concerns after the developer...

Appeal: Bus horn tests would disrupt residents of affordable scheme

11.09.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for a 100 per cent affordable brownfield housing scheme in Wakefield have been rejected after an inspector decided that noise from a neighbouring bus depot would harm the living conditions of future...

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Affordable housing prospectus published

08.09.2020

Laura Edgar

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has launched the prospectus for the government’s affordable housing programme, which was announced in the Budget in March.

Appeal: Housing would destroy ‘nationally important’ archaeology site

04.09.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for 85 homes in Dorset would fail to preserve three out of four Bronze Age ring ditches identified as ‘potentially of national importance’ by Historic England, as well as contradicting a newly adopted...

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Infrastructure spending pledges made in Scotland

04.09.2020

Roger Milne

The Scottish Government has committed itself to increase investment in infrastructure year-on-year so that by the end of the next parliamentary term it will be £1.5 billion higher than during 2019.

Appeal: Luxury 'extra care' scheme approved despite mayor's ruling

21.08.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to regenerate a former college in Kensington to provide 142 'extra care' units worth up to £6m each can go ahead, after an inspector rejected the GLA's 2019 ruling that the units were not exempt from...

Re-submitted Prestatyn development goes totally affordable

21.08.2020

Roger Milne

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A developer has re-submitted proposals for a major residential development in Prestatyn which will now comprise entirely affordable homes in a partnership with a social landlord.

‘Revised’ standard method in raft of proposed changes to current planning system

06.08.2020

Simon Wicks

A ‘revised’ standard method for calculating housing need is at the heart of interim reforms to the planning system in England proposed by the government ahead of major changes outlined in the ...

Jenrick: ‘Outdated’ planning system contributes to generational divide

03.08.2020

Laura Edgar

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick believes that England’s ‘outdated and cumbersome’ planning system has contributed to a ‘generational divide’ between those who own property and those who don’t.

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