building design

An inspector has refused plans for an isolated home near Dartmoor National Park despite noting its ‘very good design’, commenting that he ‘struggled to see’ how the scheme was ‘so remarkable or excellent as...

Plans for 268 flats on a business park in Hemel Hempstead have been blocked by an inspector, who commented that the need for housing ‘should not compromise the drive for quality’, finding that residents’...

A developer that saw plans to build on metropolitan open land in South London rejected five times before succeeding at appeal in 2019 has won permission for a larger scheme on the same site, after an...

An inspector has approved plans for a new home on brownfield land in the New Forest national park despite deeming it to have fallen short of the standards of NPPF paragraph 79, praising its ‘sense of delight...