building design

Appeal: Historic garden restoration plans justify green belt home

31.10.2019

Plans for a ‘unique’ home in the grounds of a listed manor house would include restoration works to its historic gardens that would bring a ‘significant’ public benefit and would amount to ‘very special...

Appeal: Affordable home clustering scuppers Warwickshire scheme

02.10.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for 130 homes on an allocated site near Warwick after taking issue with the scheme’s layout, ruling that the ‘clear and noticeable concentration’ of affordable homes proposed...

Appeals round-up: Social benefits of greenhouse are 'very special circumstances'; Beer garden privacy outweighs 4m play frame

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 14 September-20 September, 2019

Appeal: Paragraph 79 home ‘exceeds highest standards of architecture’

19.09.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for a unique new home in the High Weald AONB under NPPF paragraph 79, commenting that the scheme ‘in many aspects exceeded the highest standards of architecture’.

Appeal: Mixed-use scheme would disrupt Grenfell support facility

13.09.2019

Matt Moody

A nine-storey commercial building in Kensington would unacceptably disrupt visitors to a support facility for those affected by the 2017 Grenfell fire, an inspector has ruled, after the appellant failed to...

Appeal: Restoration of Victorian school’s pre-war quadrangle is rejected

30.08.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has dismissed plans for a boldly designed extension to a listed school in London that would restore its formerly enclosed courtyard, which was exposed to the street as a result of Second World...

Appeals round-up: Planning balance 'significantly against' 97-home Gladman scheme; Timber processing not allowed under green belt forestry exception

23.08.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 17 August-23 August, 2019

Appeal: Cantilevered hilltop home blocked by bats in Bath

23.08.2019

Matt Moody

A design review panel-supported proposal to replace an existing home overlooking the city of Bath with a unique contemporary house has been blocked by an inspector, who cited concerns over the scheme's...

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Appeal: Zinc-clad bungalow extension 'thoroughly at odds' with surroundings

23.08.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector rejected Aylesbury Vale council's arguments that a proposed extension to a bungalow would preclude its occupation by elderly people, before dismissing permission on design grounds.

Building toward social inclusion

14.08.2019

Andrew Silverman

A policy focus on social inclusion will change the way that homes, workplaces and public buildings are designed, says Andrew Silverman

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