building design

Appeal: ‘Castle keep’ cylindrical homes refused on Devon coast

27.03.2020

An inspector has rejected plans for three bespoke cylindrical homes in a protected coastal area in the South Devon AONB, citing various clashes with the local development plan.

Appeal: 18-storey tower held back by affordable housing agreement

28.02.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has cited an incomplete ‘bespoke agreement’ for variable affordable housing in refusing plans for an 18-storey tower comprising 151 flats in Leeds, after overturning four of the council’s five...

Appeals round-up: TV series plaques would devalue commemoration of real people; Co-living apartments allowed despite space concerns

20.02.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 15 February-21 February, 2020

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Appeal: 'Quirky' conversion of Victorian water tower rejected

20.02.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has dismissed plans to convert a water tower in the grounds of a grade II* listed manor house in the Hertfordshire green belt, despite acknowledging that the scheme would be an 'interesting and...

Appeal: ‘Very special circumstances’ apply in innovative green belt housing scheme

14.02.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to replace an agricultural complex in the Buckinghamshire countryside with a housing scheme based on an “‘innovative design idiom’ can go ahead, after an inspector found cumulative ‘very special...

Appeals round-up: Housing scheme meets all five rural exception policy requirements; Holiday mews would block sunlight in conservation area

31.01.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 25 January-31 January, 2020

Appeal: Flats to replace Victorian hotel would not 'sit quietly'

31.01.2020

Matt Moody

building design | Design | North West | tilted balance

An inspector has blocked plans to replace a Victorian hotel in New Brighton with a block of 14 apartments, ruling that rather than allowing it to 'sit quietly within the street scene', the building's '...

Appeal: ‘No evidence whatsoever’ behind mayor’s affordable housing demand

24.01.2020

Matt Moody

The housing secretary has approved a plan for 365 high-rise flats in Lewisham that was blocked by the Mayor of London for its ‘wholly unacceptable’ affordable housing offer, after an inspector found ‘no...

Appeal: ‘Viking longboat’ paragraph 79 home rejected

21.01.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has dismissed plans for a bespoke family home in East Yorkshire designed to echo the hull of a Viking longboat, expressing doubts that concept would be ‘widely understood’.

Appeal: Paragraph 79 home falls short of metaphorical concepts

10.01.2020

Matt Moody

building design | Design | paragraph 79 | Rural | Yorkshire

An inspector has blocked plans for a bespoke family home in the Leeds green belt submitted under NPPF paragraph 79, ruling that the scheme’s design had failed to capture the three ‘architectural metaphors’...

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