eco-dwelling

Appeals round-up: Hilltop water tank home refused for green belt harm; No 'very special circumstances' at football club without legal agreement

13.09.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | Community Infrastructure | Demographics & Population Growth | demolition order | Design | Development Management & Enforcement | eco-dwelling | Finance & Viability | Green Belt | Health | Heritage | Infrastructure - Energy | Leisure & Tourism | listed building | Planning Law | Rural | solar farm | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 7 September-13 September, 2019
Appeals round-up: Lack of parking rules out community pizzeria; Withdrawn local plan helps to justify 322-home scheme

30.08.2019

Matt Moody

Community Infrastructure | Design | eco-dwelling | emerging plan | Finance & Viability | Heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Energy | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | listed building | paragraph 79 | parking | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Regeneration | Rural | school | town centre | UK | wind farm

A round-up of planning appeals: 24 August-30 August, 2019
Appeal: Zero-carbon AONB eco-home not allowed under NPPF paragraph 79

30.08.2019

Matt Moody

AONB | Design | eco-dwelling | paragraph 79 | Rural | South East | wildlife

Plans for a new home with a curved green roof intended to integrate it into the surrounding High Weald AONB have been rejected because an inspector ruled that the scheme did not meet the ‘high bar’ of NPPF...
Appeal: Unsafe access impedes Sussex eco-home plans

21.06.2019

Matt Moody

accessibility | eco-dwelling | Environmental | highway safety | Infrastructure - Transport | South East

An inspector has refused plans to replace a dilapidated greenhouse with a zero-carbon eco-home in the High Weald AONB, ruling that an access road already used by two existing nearby homes was hazardous....
Appeal: Writing hut’s ‘whimsical charm’ justifies green belt permission

22.06.2018

Matt Moody

building design | Design | eco-dwelling | Green Belt | South West

A wooden hut designed to resemble a beech nut has been granted retrospective permission, after an inspector ruled that its ‘unique and quirky design’ amounted to very special circumstances....
Appeal: Eco-home ‘not sufficiently innovative’ for NPPF paragraph 55

11.01.2018

Matt Moody

Climate Change | Design | eco-dwelling | paragraph 55 | Passivhaus | South East

Plans for a zero-carbon climate-neutral settlement near Chichester have been blocked after an inspector ruled that its renewable technologies were ‘increasingly finding favour’ with housebuilders...
Appeals round-up: ‘Inadequate detail’ halts 133-home Denbighshire scheme; Urgent personal circumstances justify green belt traveller site

20.10.2017

Matt Moody

appeal costs | childcare | Design | eco-dwelling | employment land | Heritage | Housing | Planning Law | Rural | Technology | traveller pitches | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 16 October-22 October, 2017
Appeal: Research benefits of eco-home outweighed by harm to AONB

01.06.2017

AONB | eco-dwelling | Environmental | South West | Technology

An inspector has blocked plans for an innovative and highly efficient ‘eco-plus’ home in Dorset, after finding insufficient evidence that the public benefit it would bring would outweigh harm to...
Appeal: 1-bed eco-home ruled ‘devoid of architectural merit’

18.05.2017

design | eco-dwelling | Environmental | Housing | South East

An inspector has dismissed plans to replace a triple garage block near Guildford with a one-bed ‘eco-dwelling’, strongly criticising the scheme's bland design and lack of private garden area...
Appeal: Another eco-dwelling dismissed as ‘not sustainable’

25.10.2016

Martha Harris

Design | East of England | eco-dwelling | Environmental | Housing | Rural | Sustainability

Permission has been refused for a new ecological dwelling in Thurston, Suffolk, after an inspector found that it would fail to support sustainable transport methods.