building design

Appeal: Seafront scheme refused despite design review panel support

04.04.2019

building design | Design | design review panel | financial viability | South West

An inspector has dismissed plans to replace an Edwardian hotel in Newquay with a modern block of flats, despite the appellant’s ‘admirable’ iterative approach to the design, which won support from the...

Appeal: Art Deco student halls would ‘dominate’ Southampton street

28.03.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has dismissed plans to replace a former Blockbuster video store with a five-storey student accommodation block, ruling that the building's Art Deco design elements did not outweigh its ‘dominant...

Appeal: ‘Alien-like’ Lambeth tower would harm view of ‘Big Ben’

08.03.2019

Matt Moody

Plans for a £6.6million 15-storey tower described by local residents as a ‘horrific alien phallus’ have been blocked because the development would damage a protected view of the Palace of Westminster....

Appeal: ‘Truly outstanding’ paragraph 79 home would not be isolated

07.03.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for a home in the Mendip Hills AONB despite its ‘truly outstanding’ design, because it could not be considered ‘isolated’ under NPPF paragraph 79 in light of the Court of...

Appeal: Extension to enclose outdoor seating would harm green belt

05.03.2019

Matt Moody

building design | East of England | Green Belt | pubs | Rural

An Essex pub’s plans to consolidate a decking area used for outdoor seating and various outbuildings into a single-storey rear extension would be detrimental to green belt openness, an inspector has ruled....

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Appeal: Shipping container café allowed despite ‘design shortcomings’

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

Plans for a café composed of two converted shipping containers on a brownfield plot in Wakefield can go ahead, after an inspector ruled that the proposed ‘positive and effective use of the site’ outweighed...

Appeal: Modernist Hampstead home saved from demolition

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

A modernist home in Hampstead, previously owned by Baroness Serota, the late British Government minister and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, will not be demolished to make way for an ‘overly...

Appeal: ‘Bold but subtle’ design preferred to Victorian-style pastiche

21.02.2019

Matt Moody

building design | Design | South East | underground dwelling | victorian

Plans for a partially subterranean home in a domestic garden in Haywards Heath can go ahead, an inspector has ruled, because the proposed modern design would not “attempt to act as a pastiche” of the...

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Appeal: ‘Monolithic’ 14-storey student tower would harm Swansea townscape

19.02.2019

Matt Moody

Plans for a tower to provide 414 units of student accommodation in Swansea would appear ‘monolithic and slab-like’, an inspector has ruled, refusing permission despite acknowledging the ‘increasing demand’...

Appeal: Contemporary design preferred to pastiche in conservation area

05.02.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans to redesign the entrance to a shopping arcade in Cheltenham conservation area, replacing the existing classical pastiche with a contemporary glazed design.

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