landscape

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Recovered appeal: Andrew confirms 1,000 home development in Watership Down landscape

10.05.2022

Housing minister Stuart Andrew has backed an inspector’s decision to allow outline planning permission for more than 1,000 homes, a primary school, a local centre with commercial floor space and a country...

Welsh minister overrules inspector to refuse solar farm

17.09.2021

Matt Moody

Welsh rural affairs minister Lesley Griffiths has refused plans for a solar farm between Cardiff and Newport that would have powered 32,000 homes for 40 years against the advice of an inspector, citing harm...

Homes in the countryside: Where to start?

20.05.2021

Daniel Gender-Sherry

An understanding of policy and landscape must precede any thoughts about design when planning paragraph 79 homes, says Daniel Gender-Sherry

Appeal: Motorway services allowed after a 25-year conflict

16.04.2021

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved a new motorway service area to serve the A1(M) in North Yorkshire after considering two potential schemes at a joint inquiry, disappointing a local campaign group that had fought...

Appeal: Lack of affordable housing gets 400-home scheme rejected

29.01.2021

Matt Moody

An inspector cited a major developer’s zero per cent affordable housing offer in refusing plans for 400 homes near Manchester, saying that it would have reduced the risk to the developer ‘at the expense of...

Appeal: 1.3-year housing supply justifies 76 homes in South Wales

19.06.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for 76 homes within a designated landscape area and beyond the nearest settlement boundary can go ahead because an inspector considered the council’s ‘serious’ housing shortfall a material...

Appeal: Carbon-negative home ‘commendable but not innovative’

10.10.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has blocked plans for a Passivhaus-standard eco-home in Norfolk that would remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it would produce, citing harm to views over an historic area...

Appeal: Mobility scooter access track harmed Wales national park

05.04.2019

Matt Moody

A track dug to provide access for a mobility scooter to a static caravan in the Pembrokeshire coast national park has been refused retrospective permission, after an inspector found that it had 'altered the...

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Appeal:  Larger revised wind farm scheme approved in Perthshire

25.01.2019

Matt Moody

 A Scottish reporter has approved controversial plans for nine wind turbines in Perthshire, despite similar plans to build four turbines on the site having been blocked in 2010.

News report: Can we design well-being into modern cities?

02.10.2018

Catherine Early

After attending the Valuing Landscape Conference 2018: Connecting People, Places and Nature, Catherine Early reports on how planners and landscape designers can ensure that tomorrow’s...

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