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Appeal: Airbnb shipping container harms heritage

19.02.2021

An inspector has refused retrospective consent for a 12-metre shipping container installed next to a listed bed-and-breakfast business in Sleaford, ruling that pollution-eating moss cladding and a roof...

Appeal: Mixed-use Bath scheme will preserve family business

08.01.2021

Matt Moody

Plans for the redevelopment of an industrial area in Bath to provide student flats and high-tech employment space can go ahead, after an inspector overturned all eight of the council’s reasons for refusal....

Appeal: Canal yard regeneration scheme’s public benefits prove decisive

11.12.2020

Matt Moody

Plans by a specialist developer to redevelop a ‘neglected’ canal yard near Stockport and convert its listed warehouse into a community hub can go ahead despite the loss of some historic fabric, an inspector...

Legal briefs: Elephant and Castle demolition appeal can go ahead; Judicial review sought over Sutherland spaceport

06.11.2020

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 31 October-6 November, 2020

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Appeal: Wheelchair access outweighs loss of original features

06.11.2020

Matt Moody

A delicatessen’s plans to alter its frontage to improve wheelchair access can go ahead after an inspector decided that the scheme’s accessibility benefits outweighed the ‘less than substantial’ harm to the...

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Appeal: Permeable paving would harm listed water cure house

23.10.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to install permeable paving at a listed building in Malvern, known as the town’s first hydropathic therapy establishment, to improve surface water drainage have been rejected after an inspector...

Appeal: Four-storey vinyl artwork is allowed at Beefeater distillery

09.10.2020

Matt Moody

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Plans for a large artwork covering much of one of the walls of the Beefeater gin distillery in South London can go ahead, after an inspector decided that the proposal was ‘reminiscent of traditional...

Appeals round-up: Inspector sides with council in 'heritage colours' dispute; Self-build homes deemed harmful to world heritage site

02.10.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planing appeals: 26 September-2 October, 2020

Appeal: Inspector sides with council in 'heritage colours' dispute

01.10.2020

Matt Moody

coffee shop | conservation area | East Midlands | Heritage | paint

Retrospective permission for the painting of a village post office's windows and doors an 'inky blue' colour following its conversion into a coffee shop has been refused, after an inspector deemed the new...

Appeal: Orangery 'wholly at odds' with grade II* listed medieval building

01.10.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for a glazed extension to a 13th century building in Oakham would be 'wholly incongruous' with the existing structure and were not necessary to secure its optimum viable use, an inspector has ruled....

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