animals

Appeals round-up: Social benefits of greenhouse are 'very special circumstances'; Beer garden privacy outweighs 4m play frame

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

animals | building design | Business & Enterprise | Community Engagement | Design | Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | Green Belt | Heritage | infill development | inquiry | paragraph 79 | Planning Law | privacy | UK | victorian

A round-up of planning appeals: 14 September-20 September, 2019
Appeal: Canine hydrotherapy pool allowed beyond settlement boundary

18.09.2019

Matt Moody

animals | Business & Enterprise | Infrastructure - Transport | settlement boundary | South East | traffic

An inspector has approved plans for a specialist treatment facility for dogs in Hampshire after siding with the appellant, who sought to ‘provide a more home-based service’ as part of her animal health...
Appeal: Expansion of ‘predator experience’ allowed in national park

14.06.2019

Matt Moody

animals | Leisure & Tourism | National Park | North West | Rural | wildlife | world heritage site

An inspector has approved expansion plans at a tourist attraction in the Lake District offering ‘wolf walks’ and other experiences despite harm to the area’s World Heritage Site designation, noting that the...
Appeal: Primate cabins rejected despite compulsory purchase order

03.05.2019

Matt Moody

animals | blight notice | compulsory purchase | Infrastructure - Transport | motorway | Rural | South West

An inspector has blocked six cabins intended to house a ‘private primate collection’ in the Dorset green belt, despite acknowledging that plans to widen the M4 motorway had forced the appellant to relocate...
Appeal: Back garden home for 60 pet cats would harm green belt

02.04.2019

Matt Moody

animals | Green Belt | Rural | South East

An inspector has dismissed plans for a timber-clad building in the Hertfordshire green belt to house 60 cats as part of an ‘entirely domestic hobby’, finding no very special circumstances to justify the...