conservation area

Appeal: Build-to-rent Kingston scheme contrary to regeneration plan

30.08.2019

Plans to demolish a popular former music venue and other post-war buildings in Kingston upon Thames to make way for a mixed-use scheme including 311 flats would conflict with the council’s vision for the...

Appeal: Restoration of Victorian school’s pre-war quadrangle is rejected

30.08.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has dismissed plans for a boldly designed extension to a listed school in London that would restore its formerly enclosed courtyard, which was exposed to the street as a result of Second World...

Appeals round-up: Planning balance 'significantly against' 97-home Gladman scheme; Timber processing not allowed under green belt forestry exception

23.08.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 17 August-23 August, 2019

Appeals round-up: Time limit extended for 1,850-home Edinburgh Marina project; Green roof justifies glazed AONB home

09.08.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 3 August-9 August, 2019

Enforcement: Sagging 'makeshift' extension harmful to conservation area

09.08.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against a portico extension to a house in Luton with a 'significant sag' in its middle, finding its poor design at odds with the surrounding conservation area....

Appeal: King's Cross regeneration scheme blocked despite mayor's support

09.08.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has blocked plans for a canal-side redevelopment project to provide 2,000 square metres of additional office space in north London that was 'strongly supported' by the Mayor of London, citing...

Appeal: Residential conversion of grade-II* listed fire station tower rejected

06.08.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused plans to convert a five-storey tower in north-west London into a one-bedroom flat, despite acknowledging that the plans would create 'a unique and novel living space within a...

Appeals round-up: Pub demolition blocked after more than 1,000 objections; 105 flats allowed near industrial estate under permitted development

28.06.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 22 June-28 June, 2019

Appeal: Rooftop play area would harm Birmingham conservation area

27.06.2019

Matt Moody

childcare | conservation area | Heritage | roofspace | West Midlands

Plans to add a rooftop play area disguised as a mansard roof to a nursery in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter would harm the surrounding conservation area, an inspector has ruled.

Appeal: Accessibility works at listed almshouses rejected

07.06.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has turned down a plan to install dormers to the rear of a terrace of listed almshouses for elderly women in Wandsworth, which would have provided toilet facilities at the same level as bedrooms...

Pages