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Defining moment: How a legal challenge could improve planning for Gypsy Travellers

10.05.2021

Matt Moody

A landmark case could reverse the narrowing of the definition of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers within planning policy. As we await the verdict, Matt Moody considers planning's complex relationship with people...

News in brief: Submit your entry to the RTPI’s research awards now; DfT expands in Birmingham and Leeds

16.03.2021

Laura Edgar and Martin Read

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 16 March, 2021

Appeals round-up: Ammonia from poultry droppings could harm protected heath; Mechanical ventilation justifies Luton GPDO conversion

16.10.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planing appeals: 10 October-16 October, 2020

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

26.06.2020

Matt Moody

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

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

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

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

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...