housing need

Appeal: 222 homes refused ahead of local plan examination

04.05.2018

Matt Moody

Housing | housing allocation | housing need | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | South East

An inspector has refused outline permission for 222 homes near the village of Cranfield, Bedfordshire, despite noting that a new local plan recently submitted for examination will ‘substantially raise...
Appeal: 100% affordable scheme refused despite district-wide need

28.03.2018

Matt Moody

affordable housing | East Midlands | Finance & Viability | Housing | housing need | Policy & Politics | rural exception sites

Plans for 16 affordable homes in Wessington, Derbyshire, have been blocked because no ‘demonstrable need’ for such housing could be demonstrated within the village itself, despite an unfulfilled...
Javid announces methodology to assess local housing need

14.09.2017

Laura Edgar

BPF | England | Housing | housing need | lga | NPPF | planning fees | Policy & Politics | Sajid Javid

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has launched a consultation on the government’s proposals for calculating local housing need as the government looks to deliver measures set out earlier this year in the...
Appeal: Housing shortfall need not always trigger NPPF tilted balance, says inspector

08.09.2017

Housing | housing need | landscape impact | North East | NPPF | Paragraph 14 | Plan Making - Master Planning | Planning Law

An inspector has refused plans for 165 homes on greenfield land near Harrogate, after ruling that the ‘tilted balance’ of NPPF paragraph 14 should not automatically be engaged when there is a...
Appeal: Golf club wins permission to build homes

17.07.2017

Huw Morris

England | Housing | housing need | Wokingham

Outline planning permission has been granted to build 13 homes at Sonning Golf Club after an inspector decided that Wokingham Borough Council had underestimated housing need.
Appeals round-up: ‘Transfer of permission’ for worker’s home at educational farm refused; ‘Pressing need’ justifies 140-home plan in rural Cambridgeshire

10.07.2017

called-in decision | Community Infrastructure | conversion | Demographics & Population Growth | Environmental | HMO | Housing | housing need | Plan Making - Master Planning | Planning Law | planning obligations | Rural | starter homes | supermarket | UK

A round-up of appeal decisions: 3 July-7 July, 2017
Oxfordshire council rejects unmet housing need advice

28.09.2016

Laura Edgar

England | Housing | housing need | Oxford | Oxfordshire | South East

While five out of six Oxfordshire councils have agreed to housing allocation suggestions on how to meet Oxford’s housing need, one has rejected its recommended number.
Local plan report ‘will provide planners with greater certainty’

21.03.2016

Laura Edgar

England | Housing | housing need | Phil Williams | plan-making | RTPI

RTPI president Phil Williams says a recently published report into local plans will “provide planners with greater certainty” and offers “bold” solutions to the problems facing plan-making in England.
Permitted to meet housing need?

09.01.2015

Zoe Willcox

Bristol | Development Management & Enforcement | England | Housing | housing need | Local plans | permitted development

A failure to add an affordable housing obligation to 'prior approval' office to residential developments puts pressure on local housing authorities, says Bristol's director of planning Zoe Willcox
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