conservation area

Appeal: 'Distinctive' building would be 'visually swamped' by care home plans

23.05.2019

A reporter has blocked plans to convert an attractive house in St Andrews into a 40-bed care home by building two large extensions in its gardens, finding unacceptable harm to the existing building and the...

Enforcement: Notice upheld against blue-painted terraced house

16.05.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against a homeowner who painted her North London terraced home blue, ruling that the paintwork ‘individualised the dwelling’ and harmed the uniform character of the...

Enforcement: Notice upheld against front door that ‘depicts local landscapes’

11.04.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against a couple who, despite an article 4 direction protecting front doors in the area, installed one with ‘stained glass depictions of local landscapes’ at their...

Appeal: Retirement flats allowed in light of 0.5-year housing supply

03.04.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for 43 retirement apartments in Hythe, Hampshire, despite acknowledging that there would be some harm to the adjacent conservation area, citing the council’s ‘completely...

Appeal: ‘Alien-like’ Lambeth tower would harm view of ‘Big Ben’

08.03.2019

Matt Moody

Plans for a £6.6million 15-storey tower described by local residents as a ‘horrific alien phallus’ have been blocked because the development would damage a protected view of the Palace of Westminster....

Appeal: ‘Densely overgrown’ land preferred to school facilities

19.02.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused a school’s plans to develop ‘untamed’ land in North London for sport and teaching facilities, finding unacceptable harm to the surrounding conservation area.

Appeals round-up: Three-home scheme would affect nuclear incident plans; 180 days of holiday letting harmful to housing supply

08.02.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 2 February-8 February, 2019

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

16.01.2019

Matt Moody

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...

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