AONB

Appeal: Modern design preferred to ‘unconvincing’ period style for replacement home

10.04.2018

An inspector has approved a replacement home in an East Sussex conservation area characterised by Victorian homes, ruling that its contemporary design would avoid the ‘unconvincing replication of...

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Appeal: Eco-home would ‘go almost unnoticed’ in Kent AONB

22.03.2018

Matt Moody

AONB | eco-home | Rural | South East

An inspector has approved plans for an eco-home in Alkham, Kent, with a ‘very different character’ from other buildings nearby, because its discreet design would render it ‘barely visible...

Appeal: Council must pay costs for relying on outdated pre-NPPF policies

08.02.2018

Matt Moody

West Devon Borough Council must pay costs for relying on 13-year-old policies that are not compatible with the NPPF in refusing 22 homes, despite being unable to show a five-year housing supply.

Appeals round-up: Wind turbine could increase pink-footed goose mortality rate; Islington Council calls for lower affordable housing threshold

26.01.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 19 January-26 January, 2018

Appeals round-up: Neglected 1970s monastery will not make way for housing; Air-dome in green belt will meet winter tennis ‘need’

15.12.2017

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 11 December-17 December, 2017

Appeal: 29-home AONB scheme ruled ‘major development’

15.12.2017

Matt Moody

affordable housing | AONB | Housing | Rural | West Midlands

An inspector has refused permission for 29 homes in Cradley, a village within the Malvern Hills AONB, ruling that a 4 per cent increase in its size would constitute ‘major development’, contrary...

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Legal briefs: Dover AONB homes stopped by Supreme Court

08.12.2017

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 2 December-8 December, 2017

England round-up: Dover AONB homes stopped by Supreme Court; Construction industry issues warning on access to EU workers post-Brexit

08.12.2017

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 2 December-8 December, 2017

Dover AONB homes stopped by Supreme Court

07.12.2017

Laura Edgar

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the Court of Appeal against plans to build 521 homes in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Appeal: Neighbourhood plan policy on unoccupied homes overruled

05.12.2017

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for four homes in Northumbria with no occupancy restriction, despite an emerging neighbourhood plan policy that requires all new homes to be 'principal residences'....

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