amenity space

Appeals round-up: Spa homes proposal rejected for harming protected sites; Financial trading antennae not allowed in green belt

14.06.2019

Matt Moody

amenity space | change of use | Community Engagement | crowdfunding | Design | Environmental | European protected species | Finance & Viability | Green Belt | green gap | Health | Heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | National Park | Public Realm | recovered appeal | Regeneration | Rural | sunlight | UK | wildlife | world heritage site

A round-up of planning appeals: 8 June-14 June, 2019
Appeal: Back garden home allowed in spite of space concern

14.06.2019

Simon Wicks

amenity space | building design | Design | Health | South East

A proposed two-bedroomed house in the back garden of a detached family home can be built, after an inspector identified ‘precious little evidence’ for the council’s claim that it would not offer enough...
Appeals round-up: ‘Well-judged’ flat-roof home allowed on Isle of Skye; Finances do not justify removal of occupancy condition

03.08.2018

Matt Moody

affordable housing | amenity space | conservation area | Design | Finance & Viability | Green Belt | Heritage | Housing | landscape character | NPPF | Planning Law | Policy & Politics | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 28 July-3 August, 2018.
Appeal: Outdoor space unsatisfactory for supported living flats

02.08.2018

Matt Moody

amenity space | assisted living | Cymru | Demographics & Population Growth | living conditions

Plans for six ‘supported living’ flats in Newport have been rejected after an inspector found that the proposed outdoor amenity space would be unsatisfactory for the maximum number of occupants...
Appeal: 58-flat block allowed despite missing multiple policy targets

27.04.2018

Matt Moody

affordable housing | amenity space | conservation area | Heritage | Housing | London | parking | Regeneration | Regeneration

An inspector has approved plans to replace a former Wetherspoon pub in Edmonton with a six-storey block of flats, despite the scheme’s failure to meet affordable housing, parking and communal space...
Appeals round-up: No justification for 200 homes in Glasgow green belt; Grass airstrip refused in national park for fourth time

09.02.2018

Matt Moody

amenity space | Business & Enterprise | Community Infrastructure | Demographics & Population Growth | Environmental | Finance & Viability | Green Belt | Health | Heritage | homelessness | Housing | Leisure & Tourism | listed building | Policy & Politics | Public Realm | Rural | SANG | Takeaway | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 2 February-9 February, 2018
Appeal: No room to get dressed in toilet-to-studio flat conversion

09.02.2018

Matt Moody

amenity space | Housing | South East | space standards | studio flat

An inspector has blocked plans to convert the toilet room of a listed Southampton home into a studio flat, because it would have one-fifth of the floor space required by national standards.
Appeal: Expired permission renewal blocked despite 'no change in circumstances'

01.12.2017

Matt Moody

amenity space | appeal costs | Environmental | Planning Law | West Midlands

An inspector has ordered Nuneaton Council to pay costs for refusing to renew permission for a two-storey house that expired in 2016 despite no 'material change in circumstances' since, before then...
Report: Sacrificing apartments for multiple-use amenities can be ‘risky’ for developers

12.12.2016

Laura Edgar

amenity space | BPF | Build to Rent | cast | England | Housing | UK

The inclusion of multiple amenities in lieu of apartments in new build-to-rent schemes can have a ‘significant impact’ on the commercial performance of a building.
Appeal: Glasgow student accommodation rejected because of insufficient amenity space

07.04.2016

Martha Harris

amenity space | Housing | Scotland | student accommodation

Curlew Capital has been refused permission for a 262-bed student accommodation development after an inspector agreed with Glasgow City Council’s assessment that the replacement of a permitted gymnasium with...