core strategy

Appeal: Ministerial statement leads to refusal of 90 homes despite shortfall

17.01.2018

An inspector has rejected plans for 90 homes in Aylesbury despite the council’s housing supply shortfall, citing a written ministerial statement on neighbourhood plans that contradicts paragraph 49 of...

Appeal: 240 more homes unjustified in light of 6.67-year supply

17.01.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has blocked 240 homes near Stratford-upon-Avon, ruling that allowing further development contrary to local policy in an area with a housing supply of 6.67 years would ‘undermine the whole...

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Appeal: Applying development plan ‘with full rigour’ could worsen housing deficit

22.11.2017

Matt Moody

Outline permission for 235 homes and a primary school in Nottinghamshire has been granted despite conflict with the local core strategy, after an inspector warned that applying the development plan ‘...

Appeal: Ministerial statement outweighs core strategy, rules inspector

09.11.2017

Matt Moody

In refusing a plan for seven homes in Camberley on character and appearance grounds, an inspector ruled that the 2014 ministerial statement on affordable housing carried more weight than local policy....

Appeal: Single-storey extension approved in Waltham Forest

11.07.2017

Huw Morris

Planning permission has been granted for a single-storey rear extension at a property in Woodford Green after an inspector ruled the development would be appropriate to the area’s character and...

Appeal: 147-home scheme blocked despite according with spatial strategy

19.06.2017

core strategy | East Midlands | Housing | housing supply | Plan Making - Spatial Planning

An inspector has refused permission for a 147-home scheme in Kettering that would accord with the Northamptonshire joint core strategy. He ruled the area’s five-year housing land supply of 5.7 years...

Appeals round-up: Digital display board would harm visual amenity at Cambridge United FC; More accommodation for seasonal fruit pickers ‘not justified’

13.04.2017

A round-up of appeal decisions: 8 April-13 April, 2017

Appeal: 195-home scheme undermines plan-led system

29.03.2017

core strategy | East Midlands | Housing | Plan Making - Master Planning

Plans for a 195-home development near the village of Sileby have been blocked as the inspector contended that allowing it would undermine the local council’s core strategy, despite the scheme’s...

Appeal: Javid favours neighbourhood plan in Kineton homes refusal

14.10.2016

Martha Harris

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has backed an inspector’s refusal of 90 homes in Kineton, Warwickshire, after giving significant weight to the scheme’s conflict with the newly adopted Stratford-on-Avon...

Appeal: Housing need outweighs settlement hierarchy of challenged core strategy

13.10.2016

Martha Harris

Permission has been granted for 118 homes, including 35 affordable units, outside of the settlement limits of an ‘infill’ village in North Somerset, after North Somerset Council failed to demonstrate a five-...

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