conservation area

Appeal: Passivhaus homes refused despite green space oversupply

27.03.2020

A housing association's plans to build 25 energy-efficient homes on designated green space in a Wychavon village have been rejected, despite a ‘technical oversupply’ of green space in the area.

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Appeal: Housing scheme fails at reserved matters stage

27.03.2020

Matt Moody

character and appearance | conservation area | East Midlands | Housing | outline permission

Plans for 55 homes in south Cambridgeshire that received outline permission in 2017 have been refused final approval after an inspector found harm to the character of an historic village.

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Appeal: Existing anti-suicide fencing preferred to redesigned alternative

13.03.2020

Matt Moody

A heritage group's alternative plans for anti-suicide fencing on the grade-II listed Archway Bridge in north London have been rejected by an inspector who ruled that the new design would be less effective in...

Appeal: Successful relocation for popular village ‘pizza garage’

06.03.2020

Matt Moody

A popular wood-fired pizza business that was refused permission at appeal in 2018 has won consent after moving into new premises 170 metres away, after an inspector deemed the new location more ‘discreet’....

Appeal: ‘Vibrant' pink paint at odds with conservation area

06.03.2020

Matt Moody

conservation area | Heritage | North West | paint | retrospective permission

An inspector has refused retrospective permission to paint a home in a Merseyside conservation area a ‘vibrant’ shade of pink, deeming the colour scheme ‘at odds with the palette’ of the area.

Enforcement: Art studio’s chassis does not make it a caravan

06.02.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against a corrugated metal art studio in Bradford-on-Avon that was built off-site and delivered on a trailer, ruling that it was a building for planning purposes....

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: Holiday mews would block sunlight in conservation area

31.01.2020

Matt Moody

A row of mews style holiday apartments in the grounds of a listed building in Inverness cannot be built because it would block sunlight to neighbouring houses, a reporter has ruled.

Appeal: Solar panels not allowed at historic thatched cottage

10.01.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has blocked plans to install solar panels on an extension to a listed 18th century cottage in Cottenham, Cambridge, ruling that the panels would ‘appear adjoined’ to the cottage's thatched roof...

Appeal: Housing does not justify loss of unique air raid shelters

12.12.2019

Matt Moody

conservation area | East of England | Heritage | heritage asset | Housing

An inspector has rejected plans to build 73 homes in Halstead, Essex, a development that would see the demolition of a unique group of Second World War-era air raid shelters, citing unacceptable heritage...

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