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Appeal: Split decision on 315-home Ipswich scheme

07.03.2019

An inspector has issued a split decision on plans for 315 homes on the edge of Ipswich, giving the go-ahead for 190 homes on the southern portion of the site.

Appeal: Green wedge fears halt 185-home Leicestershire scheme

24.07.2018

Matt Moody

East Midlands | green wedge | Housing | housing land supply | NPPF

Plans for a 185-home extension to the village of Bosworth, Leicestershire, have been blocked, after an inspector found unacceptable harm to the function of the green wedge of which the appeal site forms part...

Appeal: Green belt prevents 280-home scheme despite ‘serious shortfall’

07.06.2018

Matt Moody

Green Belt | Housing | housing land supply | South East

Plans for 280 homes near Grays, Essex, have been blocked despite the council’s housing supply of only 2.7 years, after an inspector decided that the scheme’s benefits could not outweigh harm...

Report recommends ‘yellowfield registers’ to release land for housing

16.10.2017

Laura Edgar

England | Green Belt | Housing | housing land supply | national infrastructure commission

Allowing local authorities to redesignate green belt land by creating ‘yellowfield registers’ would enable the release of land for housing, a think tank has said.

Appeal: ‘Modest’ housing shortfall does not automatically negate local policy

16.06.2017

Permission for 27 homes near Potton, Bedfordshire, has been refused, after an inspector ruled that the need to make up the area’s ‘modest’ housing shortfall should not ‘automatically...

Report: Welsh infrastructure commission remit should cover housing land supply

25.01.2017

Laura Edgar

The remit of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales should include the supply of land for strategically significant housing developments.

Barwell clarifies policy on neighbourhood plans and lack of housing land

13.12.2016

Laura Edgar

In a ministerial statement, Gavin Barwell has said that when neighbourhood plans make provision for housing, the plans should not be deemed out of date.

Appeals round-up: Clark approves large-scale ‘inappropriate’ development for green belt; Cumulative impact of Caithness turbines judged 'negligible'

01.04.2016

Martha Harris

A round-up of appeal decisions: 26 March-1 April, 2016