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Appeal: Wheelchair access outweighs loss of original features

06.11.2020

A delicatessen’s plans to alter its frontage to improve wheelchair access can go ahead after an inspector decided that the scheme’s accessibility benefits outweighed the ‘less than substantial’ harm to the...

Appeal: £50m Southend leisure complex wins inspector’s approval

16.10.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to build a major leisure complex on a council-owned car park near the Southend seafront can go ahead after an inspector decided that the scheme’s economic benefits outweighed its conflict with the...

Appeal: Orangery 'wholly at odds' with grade II* listed medieval building

01.10.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for a glazed extension to a 13th century building in Oakham would be 'wholly incongruous' with the existing structure and were not necessary to secure its optimum viable use, an inspector has ruled....

Appeal: Grade-I listed Tudor townhouse would be ‘degraded’ by conversion

07.02.2020

Matt Moody

grade I listed | Heritage | heritage | living conditions | South West

A 16th century former townhouse and courthouse in Chard, Somerset, cannot be converted into a shop, café and flats because the work would cause more harm to its already neglected historic fabric.

£15m fund will use historic buildings to transform high streets

02.07.2019

Lydia Till

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has announced the Transforming Places Through Heritage fund, which aims to reinvigorate England’s high streets and town centres into thriving hubs of community through the redevelopment of local historic buildings.

Battle Abbey, where the Battle of Hastings was fought

Battlefield Registration – what is it trying to protect?

21.02.2019

Nick Bridgland

The sites of significant battles deserve sensitive assessment of the characteristics that contribute to their identity as battlefields, before any development decisions are made, says Nick Bridgland

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£8bn has been awarded to more than 44,000 heritage projects, including the Titantic Quarter Belfast / iStock-509799002

£1bn support for UK’s heritage

31.01.2019

Laura Edgar

funding | Heritage | heritage | National Lottery Heritage Fund | UK

More than £1 billion of National Lottery money will go towards supporting the UK’s heritage.

Appeals round-up: Leeds green space shortage precludes 46-home scheme; No consent for residential conversion of pub rebuilt after fire

23.11.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 17 November-23 November 2018

Appeal: New dwelling’s design would harm York’s historic core

02.05.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for a new home on a vacant plot within the historic core of York, ruling that its ‘disjointed appearance’ would harm designated heritage assets.

Appeals round-up: Welsh ministers approve 50MW cogeneration plant at Pembroke Refinery; 95 homes approved after site is removed from green belt

08.12.2017

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 4 December-10 December, 2017

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