five-year housing supply

Appeal: 700-home scheme allowed despite development plan conflict

06.03.2020

An inspector has granted outline permission for a major housing scheme on the Isle of Sheppey after finding no harm was posed to an important local green gap and a listed farmhouse adjacent to the site....

Appeal: Self-build shortfall justifies departure from development plan

24.09.2019

Matt Moody

East Midlands | five-year housing supply | Housing | self-build

South Cambridgeshire District Council has had its decision to refuse nine self-build homes overturned in light of its failure to deliver enough self-build permissions despite its status as a ‘self-build...

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Appeal: Care village housing scheme fails sustainability test

01.08.2019

Simon Wicks

A reporter has dismissed a 45-home scheme on green belt land by a care village in Renfrewshire despite a housing shortfall, because the site would not be a sustainable location for housing.

Appeals round-up: House approved on site ‘not well placed’ for a dwelling; Community centre would be sixfold breach of policy threshold

19.10.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 13 October-19 October, 2018

Appeal:  House approved on site ‘not well placed’ for a dwelling

19.10.2018

Matt Moody

accessibility | five-year housing supply | Housing | Rural | South East

An inspector has allowed plans for a new home on a site in the High Weald AONB that he called ‘not well placed relative to services and facilities’, in light of the council’s housing land...

Appeal: 100 homes approved in light of Swindon’s ‘serious’ housing shortfall

19.10.2018

Matt Moody

five-year housing supply | golf course | Housing | housing allocation | South West

Plans for 100 homes north of Swindon can go ahead despite landscape harm and conflict with the local development plan, an inspector has ruled, citing the council's ‘serious’ housing land...

Appeal: Council drops opposition to 265-home scheme at inquiry

26.09.2018

Matt Moody

accessibility | five-year housing supply | Housing | public inquiry | South West

An application to build 205 homes and 60 extra care apartments in Somerset can go ahead, after the council accepted at the inquiry that the scheme would fully accord with its development plan.

Appeal: Access concerns halt 500-home Stirling scheme

25.09.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused plans for 500 homes in Stirling county despite deeming the principle of housing on the site acceptable, citing the appellant’s failure to demonstrate compliance with highway...

Appeal: 30 homes allowed despite 9-year housing land supply

24.08.2018

Matt Moody

conservation area | five-year housing supply | Housing | South East

An inspector has approved plans for 30 houses beyond the settlement boundary of Crondall, a village in Hampshire, despite the council's housing land supply of nine years.

Appeal: 60 homes allowed in outline under 'tilted balance'

29.05.2018

Matt Moody

affordable housing | East of England | five-year housing supply | Housing | outline permission

An inspector has approved plans for up to 60 homes in Norfolk, ruling that the scheme's benefits would outweigh any landscape harm after applying the 'tilted balance' of NPPF paragraph 14....

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