building design

Following a virtual hearing, an inspector rejected plans for a four-storey block of flats in Hillingdon that featured a ‘monolithic’ blank façade, noting that a ‘preferable’ alternative scheme had since been...

Plans for a home in the south Lincolnshire countryside submitted under NPPF paragraph 79 have been rejected, after an inspector ruled that the scheme’s Passivhaus-standard energy-saving features were ‘not...

Plans to further extend an already-extended home in Harrow to create an accessible bedroom have been rejected by an inspector, who decided that the scheme’s private benefits did not justify harm to the...