inquiry

Appeal: Brokenshire blocks 1,500 homes near Braintree

14.06.2019

Matt Moody

East of England | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | inquiry | recovered appeal | schools | transport infrastructure

The housing secretary has refused plans to build 1,500 homes between Braintree and Rayne, a nearby village, ruling that the scheme would ‘appreciably diminish the sense of separation’ between the settlements...
Enforcement: ‘Unconventional’ living claim does not excuse unauthorised use

31.05.2019

Matt Moody

enforcement notice | HMO | inquiry | London | Planning Law | sui generis

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against a shared property in Ealing, after the appellant gave contradictory evidence under cross-examination during an inquiry.
Appeal: 66-home scheme is ‘the wrong development in the wrong place’

22.05.2019

Matt Moody

accessibility | East Midlands | Housing | housing land supply | inquiry | sustainable development

An inspector has blocked plans for 66 homes near Northampton despite the council’s ‘clear and significant’ housing supply shortfall, referring to the appeal site’s ‘very limited functional links’ with the...
Enforcement: Appellant admits altering email evidence under oath

06.02.2019

Matt Moody

Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | inquiry | London | Planning Law | space standards | subdivision

An appellant admitted under oath that he had produced false evidence showing that an email he had received in 2017 was sent in 2011, at an inquiry into enforcement action against his conversion of a South...
Appeal: Knebworth pub garden flats approved despite fierce opposition

17.01.2019

Matt Moody

agent of change | Business & Enterprise | Community Infrastructure | Finance & Viability | inquiry | noise impact | pubs | rule 6 | South East | viability

Plans to build flats on the garden of a popular pub in Hertfordshire would not threaten its viability, an inspector has ruled, rejecting a local protest group’s claims that the scheme represented a ‘Trojan...
Enforcement: Appellant’s defence of illegal bedsits was ‘deeply unconvincing’

14.11.2018

Matt Moody

enforcement notice | GPDO | inquiry | London | Planning Law

An enforcement notice has been upheld against a builder who argued ‘unconvincingly’ that the four poor-quality self-contained bedsits he had built in his rear garden were for the use of himself,...
Appeal: Time Out ‘fine dining market’ would harm conservation area

17.08.2018

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | conservation area | Environmental | Heritage | inquiry | London | public safety | restaurant

A proposal by Time Out magazine to convert a former stables in East London into a multi-floor food court has been blocked, because the proposed roof alterations would ‘erode the identity...
Brokenshire appoints chair for review into planning appeal inquiries

22.06.2018

Laura Edgar

Appeals | Bridget Rosewell | Cymru | England | inquiry | james brokenshire | Planning inquiries | Policy & Politics

James Brokenshire, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, has announced the appointment of Bridget Rosewell to chair the Independent Review into Planning Inquiries.
Appeal: ‘De-recovered’ appeal allowed after High Court quashes neighbourhood plan

18.05.2018

Matt Moody

East Midlands | high court | Housing | inquiry | neighbourhood plan | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Planning Law | recovered appeal

An inspector has approved 70 homes near Asfordby, Leicestershire, three months after the High Court quashed the village’s neighbourhood plan, leading then-communities secretary Sajid Javid to reverse...