eco-home

Appeal: Cardboard ‘Wikkelhouse’ would harm setting of listed maritime villa

13.09.2019

Matt Moody

eco-home | Heritage | heritage asset | Leisure & Tourism | listed building | micro-homes | modular homes | South West

Plans to install an innovative Dutch micro-home in the grounds of a listed Dorset villa for use as holiday accommodation would harm its historic significance, an inspector has ruled.
Appeal: Zero-carbon credentials outweigh spatial plan

09.11.2018

Matt Moody

Design | East Midlands | eco-home | Environmental | zero carbon

Plans for a four-bedroom, zero-carbon home in the Nottinghamshire countryside can go ahead after an inspector afforded decisive weight to the house’s energy efficiency.
Appeal: ‘Paragraph 55’ home proposed with design matters reserved

17.04.2018

Matt Moody

Design | East of England | eco-home | paragraph 55 | Rural

An inspector has refused an ‘eco-home’ in the Suffolk countryside under NPPF paragraph 55, which requires ‘exceptional quality of design’ because the scheme was submitted in...
Appeal: Eco-home would ‘go almost unnoticed’ in Kent AONB

22.03.2018

Matt Moody

AONB | eco-home | Rural | South East

An inspector has approved plans for an eco-home in Alkham, Kent, with a ‘very different character’ from other buildings nearby, because its discreet design would render it ‘barely visible...
Appeals round-up: Replacement uPVC windows for listed building ‘would lack finesse’; Eco-home ‘not sufficiently innovative’ for NPPF paragraph 55

12.01.2018

Matt Moody

building design | Business & Enterprise | Design | eco-home | Environmental | Housing | landscape | listed building | noise impact | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 5 January-11 January, 2018