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Appeal: Unsafe access impedes Sussex eco-home plans

21.06.2019

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

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

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

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.