healthcare

Appeal: Noise from ultrasound scanners ruled ‘extremely limited’

14.02.2020

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | Health | healthcare | noise impact | South East | town centre

An inspector has deleted a condition limiting the opening hours of a pregnancy ultrasound clinic in Alton, Hampshire, noting that the noise impact on neighbours from the scanning equipment was ‘extremely...
Appeal: Private hospital ‘not an employment use’ despite 150 new jobs

10.01.2020

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | Cymru | employment land | Health | healthcare | hospital | Mental health | offices

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: Risk to high-value tree from MRI unit's concrete platform

28.11.2018

Matt Moody

conservation area | Cymru | Environmental | Health | healthcare | trees

An inspector has refused retrospective permission for a 'concrete pad' to accommodate a mobile MRI scanner at a hospital in Swansea, citing potential harm to the roots of a high-quality yew tree....
Appeal: Council ‘failed hopelessly’ in refusing mental health unit

06.11.2018

Matt Moody

character and appearance | Cymru | Health | healthcare | industrial estate | Mental health | Planning Law

Wrexham County Council must pay costs for refusing a 54-bed mental health treatment unit, based on ‘perceptions of risk’ associated with ‘low-security’ mental health facilities that...
Appeal: Swansea private healthcare complex ‘could prejudice emerging plan’

05.04.2018

Matt Moody

Cymru | development plan | green wedge | Health | healthcare | hospital | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood

An inspector has refused outline permission to build a private healthcare complex with more than 300 beds on undeveloped land next to an existing hospital in Swansea.
Appeal: Flood risk overrides benefits of Welsh autism hospital

16.03.2018

Matt Moody

Cymru | disability | Environmental | flood risk | Health | healthcare | wales

A specialist hospital and reablement centre in North Wales for people with autism spectrum disorders has been refused permission after an inspector found ‘fundamental and unjustified conflict’...
Appeal: Medical centre's car park would disrupt neighbours

10.05.2017

Health | healthcare | highway safety | Housing | London

An inspector has blocked plans to convert a detached bungalow into a private medical centre in a residential area near St Albans, after finding that the proposed rear car park was of unsafe design and would...
Appeal: Health service and education impacts overcome in housing approval

05.07.2016

Martha Harris

affordable housing | Finance & Viability | healthcare | Housing | recreation space | South East

Pye Homes Ltd has won two appeals against West Oxfordshire District Council for the development of 169 homes and a new school playing field in Long Hanborough.
Healthy cities: It's time to focus on prevention rather than cure

10.06.2014

Rachel Stancliffe

cities | climate change | death rate | disease | grenhouse gas | Health | health | healthcare | Social infrastructure | UK

I am a demographer by training and have worked in healthcare for most of my life. As a basic marker of how well we are living on this planet, I am most interested not in GDP, or even educational standards,...