employment land

Appeal: Four-storey hotel extension allowed on business park

10.07.2018

Business & Enterprise | employment land | hotel | London

An inspector has approved plans to add an additional four storeys to a Premier Inn on a business park in Enfield, despite a local policy seeking to limit development to industrial uses.

Appeal: Business use preferred to continuation of community centre

06.07.2018

Matt Moody

A community centre operating on a Luton industrial estate since 2008 has been refused permission to stay open for another three years after an inspector found a recent increase in demand for the site’s...

Appeals round-up: Glazed extension to 16th century manor house refused; Canine day crèche refused on employment land

13.04.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 7 April-13 April, 2018

Appeal: Canine day crèche refused on employment land

13.04.2018

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | DOG KENNELS | employment land | Plan Making - Spatial Planning | South East

An inspector has refused plans to use a vacant industrial unit in Stevenage as a canine day crèche because of the need for employment land identified in the emerging local plan.

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Appeal: Gas-fired power plant would be ‘renewable-associated infrastructure’

06.04.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved an 8 megawatt gas-fired ‘peaking’ power plant in Cumbria, finding that its role in balancing the intermittent power supply from renewable energy sources meant it could...

Appeal: Award-winning gym fails sequential test

04.04.2018

Matt Moody

Retrospective permission for a gym on a business park near Liverpool has been refused despite its ‘considerable benefits’, after the appellant failed to demonstrate that ‘sequentially...

Appeals round-up: Trampoline park allowed on safeguarded industrial estate; Costs awarded over Leeds Wetherspoon conversion

16.02.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 10 February-16 February, 2018

Business's voice is being lost as housing drives the agenda

17.01.2018

Jane Gratton

The focus on building more housing is creating a shortfall in land for business and employment – and it will be to the detriment of economic growth, argues Jane Gratton

Appeal: ‘Burdensome’ obligations relaxed for next phase of Bicester 'eco-town'

01.12.2017

Matt Moody

Plans to develop 14 hectares of land in Oxfordshire as part of the Bicester 'eco-town' project will go ahead with partially relaxed planning obligations, after an inspector agreed that they were too...

Businesses lambast planning system’s performance

21.11.2017

Huw Morris

Businesses are facing increasing problems engaging with the planning system to find land and premises, with the drive for housing coming at the expense of employment.

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