landscape

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

10.10.2019

Matt Moody

East of England | eco-home | Environmental | innovation | landscape | Passivhaus | Rural

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

Cymru | Demographics & Population Growth | disability | engineering | Environmental | landscape | National Park

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...
Appeal:  Larger revised wind farm scheme approved in Perthshire

25.01.2019

Matt Moody

Heritage | Infrastructure - Energy | landscape | Rural | Scheduled Ancient Monument | Scotland | wind farm

 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

damages | deficit | design | Economic Growth | Environmental | Health | health | landscape | nature | Plan Making - Master Planning | speaking | UK | wellbeing

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...
Appeal: Visual and landscape impacts outweigh housing scheme’s merits

11.07.2018

Huw Morris

Allerdale Borough Council | Housing | landscape | Little Broughton | North West

A 64-home scheme in Cumbria has been blocked after an inspector decided that the harm to landscape and nearby residents outweighed the consideration that a council was using out-of-date limits on settlement...
Appeal: 45-home scheme outweighs loss of rare grassland

29.06.2018

Matt Moody

Demographics & Population Growth | disability | Housing | landscape | National Park | South East

The benefits of a 45-home scheme near Brighton would outweigh biodiversity concerns, an inspector has ruled in light of the constraints on housing land in the area.
Appeals round-up: Replacement uPVC windows for listed building ‘would lack finesse’; Eco-home ‘not sufficiently innovative’ for NPPF paragraph 55

12.01.2018

Matt Moody

building design | Business & Enterprise | Design | eco-home | Environmental | Housing | landscape | listed building | noise impact | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 5 January-11 January, 2018
Appeal: House with ‘buried’ design would not provide acceptable living conditions

02.05.2017

Design | Housing | housing design | landscape | living conditions | South West

A proposal for an unusual house designed to be ‘buried’ under landscaping in Buckinghamshire has been blocked, after an inspector ruled that poor outlook and lack of natural light would make...
Appeal: Recreational fishery would cause unacceptable harm to landscape

27.04.2017

fishery | landscape | South East | Water & Marine

Plans to enlarge two existing lakes to create a recreational fishery near Tunbridge Wells have been blocked after an inspector decided that the engineering work required would cause unacceptable harm to the...
Peak District earmarked for £2.5m grant

18.11.2014

Laura Edgar

England | Environmental assessment/ sustainability appraisal | Heritage | Heritage Lottery Fund | landscape | Peak District

A total of £2.5 million has been earmarked for the South West Peak Landscape Partnership by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).