housing supply

Appeal: New Edinburgh village blocked for green belt harm

16.01.2019

Plans for a new ‘village’ of 214 homes and 216 student flats on the edge of Edinburgh have been turned down after a reporter found it would function as ‘a housing estate remote from any...

Appeal: 175 homes blocked after High Court revokes permission

18.09.2018

Matt Moody

Plans for 175 homes in Essex have been refused after the High Court quashed a previous inspector’s decision to approve the scheme in light of a legal challenge by Tendring District Council.

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Appeal: 45-home scheme would undermine garden suburb plans

31.08.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for 45 homes near Heybridge, Essex, ruling that the scheme would undermine the council’s wider plans for the strategic North Heybridge Garden Suburb development.

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Appeals round-up: 'Very large' homes would 'frustrate aims' of local plan; Future employment use not ruled out despite 'structural failings'

24.08.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 18 August-24 August, 2018.

Legal briefs: Historic England loses Wolverton case; NI civil service ends challenge over powers

03.08.2018

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 28 July-3 August, 2018.

Appeal: Inspector allows 175 homes on Nottingham green belt land

25.05.2018

Matt Moody

East Midlands | Green Belt | Housing | housing supply

A major housing scheme can go ahead on green belt land south of Nottingham, after an inspector identified ‘very special circumstances’ in light of the council’s other housing allocations....

Appeal: Applying draft NPPF’s housing delivery test is premature, rules inspector

23.05.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has allowed 123 homes in Lancashire after deciding that the local council’s attempt to refuse the scheme by using the ‘housing delivery test’ contained in the draft revised...

Appeals round-up: Underground shooting range will diversify farm’s income; ‘Local knowledge’ fails to prevent 300-home Norfolk scheme

04.05.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 28 April-4 May, 2018

Appeal: Green light for ‘speculative’ 350-home Gloucestershire scheme

04.05.2018

Matt Moody

Housing | housing supply | South West | tilted balance | VALUED LANDSCAPE

An inspector has granted outline permission for 350 homes on unallocated countryside land north of Bristol, in light of the council’s ‘substantial’ housing land supply shortfall.

Appeal: Brownfield green belt scheme blocked despite 1.35-year housing supply

26.04.2018

Matt Moody

Plans to replace a group of derelict nursery glasshouses with housing that would reduce built footprint by 80 per cent would harm green belt openness, an inspector has ruled, refusing permission despite the...

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