human rights

Appeal: Social club in former dry-cleaner harms shopping street

26.06.2020

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | human rights | London | retail | town centres | vitality and viability

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against a social club for the Turkish and Kurdish community in Stoke Newington, finding it contrary to local policies on shopping frontages.
Appeal: Link to garage would make house too large to be affordable

21.06.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | Finance & Viability | human rights | planning condition | Planning Law | West Midlands

A condition limiting the internal floor area of a Shropshire house to 100 square metres is necessary to make sure it remains appropriate to the local affordable housing market, an inspector has ruled,...
Appeal: Landscape harm outweighs gypsy family’s human rights

21.06.2019

Matt Moody

Demographics & Population Growth | human rights | landscape impact | personal circumstances | Rural | South East | travellers

An inspector cited landscape harm in refusing permission for a gypsy pitch in Kent, ruling that the resulting interference with the appellant’s human rights was ‘proportionate and necessary in the public...
Appeal: Health problems do not justify a bungalow in place of lawful caravan

13.12.2018

Matt Moody

caravan park | Demographics & Population Growth | East of England | Green Belt | Health | human rights | travellers

A gypsy couple who replaced their council-approved green belt caravan with a bungalow because of their health-related low tolerance to cold weather have been refused retrospective permission by an inspector...
Appeal: Traveller pitch refused despite human rights harm

05.09.2018

Matt Moody

accessibility | Demographics & Population Growth | East of England | human rights | traveller pitches

An inspector has refused permission for a traveller pitch in Norfolk because of its inaccessible location, despite ‘serious interference’ with the human rights of the appellant and his seven-year...
Appeal: Dock restaurants scheme outweighs houseboat owner’s human rights

17.04.2018

Matt Moody

Bristol | Development Management & Enforcement | Docklands | Heritage | human rights | living conditions | restaurant | South West

Plans to restore two historic waterside docking sheds in Bristol as restaurants can go ahead after an inspector backed the council in its attempts to relocate a nearby houseboat against the will of its...