conservation area

Appeal: Inspector dismisses council’s six reasons for refusing care home

16.01.2019

care home | conservation area | Demographics & Population Growth | Design | South East

An inspector has approved plans for a 45-bed care home on the edge of St Albans conservation area, dismissing all six of the reasons for refusal cited by the council.

Appeal: Minimalist extension to listed nursery would be ‘harmfully conspicuous’

16.01.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has blocked plans for a modern rear extension to a grade-II listed children’s nursery in Bath to provide additional classroom space, calling the plans ‘intrusive and discordant...

Appeal: Retirement flats ‘not adaptable to climate change’

11.01.2019

Matt Moody

The south-facing orientation and single-aspect design of a proposed retirement complex could put its elderly residents at risk of uncomfortably high temperatures as a result of solar gain, an inspector has...

Appeal: St Albans heritage improvements constitute very special circumstances

04.12.2018

Matt Moody

conservation area | Green Belt | Heritage | listed building | South East

An inspector has cited very special circumstances in approving plans for a new home on the border between St Albans conservation area and the surrounding green belt.

Appeal: Mountaineering club can reach new heights

04.12.2018

Matt Moody

Plans for a two-storey roof extension to the grade-II listed premises of the world's oldest mountaineering club can go ahead in Eeast London, an inspector has ruled, after finding no harm to the south...

Appeal: Risk to high-value tree from MRI unit's concrete platform

28.11.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused retrospective permission for a 'concrete pad' to accommodate a mobile MRI scanner at a hospital in Swansea, citing potential harm to the roots of a high-quality yew tree....

Appeal: Residential use approved for ‘at risk’ listed school building

23.10.2018

Matt Moody

Plans to convert a historic Victorian school building in the Cairngorms national park into homes can go ahead after a reporter praised the scheme’s ‘befitting high-quality design’.

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Appeal: Change of use would not support Hatton Garden jewellery trade

14.09.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused to remove a condition preventing the change of use of a jewellery workshop in Hatton Garden, London, dismissing the appellant’s ‘pessimistic view’ that the...

Appeal: Whiteley Village expansion blocked despite ‘urgent need’

13.09.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for 60 new almshouses and a 40-unit care home at an Edwardian retirement village in Surrey, despite the 'urgent and growing' local need for accommodation for the...

Appeal: 30 homes allowed despite 9-year housing land supply

24.08.2018

Matt Moody

conservation area | five-year housing supply | Housing | South East

An inspector has approved plans for 30 houses beyond the settlement boundary of Crondall, a village in Hampshire, despite the council's housing land supply of nine years.

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