family homes

Appeal: 179-home scheme ‘entirely inconsistent’ with identified need

03.07.2020

Matt Moody

brownfield | family homes | Housing | housing mix | housing need assessment | South East

Plans to build 179 flats on brownfield land in Luton have been rejected by an inspector, who found that the scheme’s mix of too many one-bedroom flats and not enough larger homes was ‘wholly inconsistent’...
Appeal: Tottenham scheme need not balance out housing mix

17.04.2020

Matt Moody

child friendly planning | Demographics & Population Growth | family homes | Housing | housing mix | London | Regeneration

An eight-storey block of flats in Tottenham can go ahead after an inspector rejected the council’s argument that it should provide a higher proportion of family-sized units to compensate for other schemes...
Khan is not delivering affordable family homes, say London Tories

11.07.2019

Laura Edgar

affordable housing | family homes | Greater London Authority | Housing | London | sadiq khan

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been accused of not delivering enough affordable family-sized homes.
Appeal: 180 days of holiday letting harmful to housing supply

06.02.2019

Matt Moody

airbnb | family homes | Holiday accommodation | holiday let | Housing | housing supply | Leisure & Tourism | London

Allowing an Islington townhouse to be let short term for 180 days a year – twice the legal limit – would be detrimental to London's housing supply, an inspector has ruled, in contrast with other recent...
Appeal: Student flats allowed contrary to incoming guidance document

28.11.2018

Matt Moody

Cymru | Demographics & Population Growth | Design | family homes | HMO | student accommodation

Plans to replace a Swansea pub with 64 beds of student accommodation have been approved despite conflict with the council's incoming planning guidance document, in light of Swansea's projected...
London Assembly calls for family homes boost

09.02.2018

Martin Read

family homes | Housing | London | London Assembly

Conservatives on the London Assembly have requested that the draft London Housing Strategy and draft London Plan should be reviewed to include targets and provisions for new three and four-bedroom family-sized homes.