crime

Appeal: Cul-de-sac gates would harm community cohesiveness

29.05.2019

Matt Moody

community cohesion | Community Infrastructure | crime | North West

An inspector has refused plans to install a gate across the entrance to a cul-de-sac of eight detached houses in Liverpool despite residents’ crime concerns, ruling that ‘segregating’ the area would harm...
Appeals round-up: Waitrose rear entrance must stay open despite crime concerns; Paragraph 79 home 'not isolated' under Braintree ruling

24.05.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | building design | care home | crime | Demographics & Population Growth | Design | Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement notice | Finance & Viability | Heritage | HMO | Housing | paragraph 79 | Planning Law | supermarket | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 18 May-24 May, 2019
Appeal: Waitrose rear entrance must stay open despite crime concerns

23.05.2019

Matt Moody

active frontage | Business & Enterprise | crime | London | supermarket | town centre

An application by a north London branch of Waitrose to combat shoplifting by permanently closing its rear entrance has been rejected by an inspector, who found the scheme would harm the street's designated...
Appeal: 500-capacity bar allowed despite Leeds crime concerns

22.05.2019

Matt Moody

alcohol | antisocial behaviour | crime | Demographics & Population Growth | Environmental | Leeds | Leisure & Tourism | students | Use classes | Yorkshire

In a ‘finely balanced’ decision, an inspector has approved plans for a 500-capacity bar in Headingley, Leeds, despite accepting that the scheme would be a ‘retrograde step’ in attempts to control alcohol-...
Appeal: ‘Supported living centre’ would provide poor living conditions

26.03.2019

Matt Moody

crime | Health | living conditions | police | supported housing | West Midlands

Plans to convert a police station in Birmingham into a ‘supported living centre’ for vulnerable people would provide inadequate amenity space and poor levels of natural light, an inspector has ruled.
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Appeal: 10 HMOs allowed above Smethwick high street

12.03.2019

Matt Moody

crime | high street | HMO | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Regeneration | Regeneration | West Midlands

An inspector has approved a developer’s plans to regenerate a high street terrace on the outskirts of Birmingham by converting its upper floor into 10 HMOs – despite an objection from the police.
Appeal: Additional pub could make evening activity ‘bubble over’ into crime

08.01.2019

Matt Moody

antisocial behaviour | crime | Finance & Viability | Health | high street | pubs | West Midlands

Plans to convert a vacant former supermarket in Worcester city centre into a pub have been blocked, after an inspector ruled that its combination with existing businesses could cause evening activity to lead...
Birmingham joins Secured By Design scheme to tackle crime

03.12.2018

Huw Morris

Birmingham | crime | Housing | Planning Law | SBD | West Midlands

Birmingham City Council has become the first local authority in the country to sign up to a police initiative for crime prevention standards in all its new social housing schemes.
Appeals round-up: Council drops opposition to 265-home scheme at inquiry; Blackpool cash machine susceptible to ram-raiders

28.09.2018

Matt Moody

affordable housing | Community Infrastructure | crime | Demographics & Population Growth | Development Management & Enforcement | extra care housing | Finance & Viability | Health | Heritage | Housing | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Planning Law | Public Realm | recovered appeal | school | UK | viability assessment

A round-up of planning appeals: 22 September-28 September, 2018.
Appeal: Blackpool cash machine susceptible to ram-raiders

28.09.2018

Matt Moody

antisocial behaviour | crime | Health | North West

Retrospective permission for an ATM in the window of a Blackpool café has been refused after an inspector ruled that the lack of security bollards would make it susceptible to ram-raids.