employment land

Appeal: PD fallback justifies 129-home mixed-use scheme

03.04.2020

An inspector has approved plans for 129 homes, office space and a care home on designated employment land in Oxfordshire, citing already-granted prior approval for permitted development works at the site....

Appeal: Gasworks regeneration allowed despite allocation conflict

20.03.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved regeneration plans for a former gasworks in Hertford that would provide nearly twice as many homes as the council had allocated to the site, following a 12-day inquiry.

Appeals round-up: Conversation at micro pub could disrupt neighbours; Private hospital ‘not an employment use’ despite 150 new jobs

10.01.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 4th January-10 January, 2020

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Appeal: Private hospital ‘not an employment use’ despite 150 new jobs

10.01.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to convert former council offices in Rhyl into a 61-bed private mental hospital have been rejected after an inspector ruled that the scheme’s ‘primary aim’ would be to provide medical care, not ‘...

Appeal: Portishead employment land saved for ‘return of certainty’

05.12.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused plans for ‘extra care’ housing on long-vacant land allocated for business use in Portishead, commenting that Brexit uncertainty was unlikely to continue ‘for the next few years’....

Appeal: Children’s play centre on Liverpool industrial estate refused

17.10.2018

Matt Moody

A vacant industrial estate unit cannot be converted into a children’s play centre, an inspector has decided, because the scheme would undermine the council’s aim to protect designated ‘...

Appeals round-up: 'Very large' homes would 'frustrate aims' of local plan; Future employment use not ruled out despite 'structural failings'

24.08.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 18 August-24 August, 2018.

Appeal: Future employment use not ruled out despite 'structural failings'

23.08.2018

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | employment land | Housing | South East

An inspector has blocked plans to replace the former headquarters of a lighting business with 30 homes, ruling that a future employment use for the site could not be ruled out despite 'structural...

Appeal: Four-storey hotel extension allowed on business park

10.07.2018

Matt Moody

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...

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