conservation area

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

23.10.2018

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.

Appeal: 285-room Norwich student scheme's 'contrived solution' to overlooking

23.08.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused plans for a major student accommodation scheme in Norwich city centre, ruling that the appellant's proposed 'privacy screens' would be a 'contrived solution' to...

Appeals round-up: ‘Poor outlook’ from bedsit in Cheam wig shop stockroom; 119-home Powys scheme allowed with 7.5% affordable housing

17.08.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 11 August-17 August, 2018.

Appeal: Time Out ‘fine dining market’ would harm conservation area

17.08.2018

Matt Moody

A proposal by Time Out magazine to convert a former stables in East London into a multi-floor food court has been blocked, because the proposed roof alterations would ‘erode the identity...

Appeal: Student flats would enhance Reading conservation area

13.08.2018

Matt Moody

conservation area | Demographics & Population Growth | Heritage | South West | student accommodation

Plans for a four-storey block of 116 purpose-built student flats in central Reading can go ahead after an inspector ruled that the scheme would enhance the surrounding conservation area.

Appeals round-up: ‘Well-judged’ flat-roof home allowed on Isle of Skye; Finances do not justify removal of occupancy condition

03.08.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 28 July-3 August, 2018.

Appeal: Recessed doorway not intrinsic to conservation area

31.07.2018

Matt Moody

active frontage | conservation area | Heritage | high street | London

An inspector has approved plans to replace a traditional shop frontage in Richmond, Surrey, ruling that its recessed doorway is not intrinsic to the visual quality of the surrounding conservation area....

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