healthcare

Appeal: Private ambulance parking not allowed in green belt

09.07.2021

An inspector has refused to allow green belt land north of Slough to be used for parking private ambulances providing patient transfer services to nearby hospitals, ruling that ‘very special circumstances’...

€400m medical and housing project proposed for Limerick

19.02.2021

Roger Milne

Ambitious proposals for more than 200 new homes, a new hospital and a medical training and research centre have been unveiled as a single development across three sites in Limerick.

Appeal: Noise from ultrasound scanners ruled ‘extremely limited’

14.02.2020

Matt Moody

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...

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

28.11.2018

Matt Moody

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

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...

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Appeal: Swansea private healthcare complex ‘could prejudice emerging plan’

05.04.2018

Matt Moody

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

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

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.

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