living conditions

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Appeal: New home allowed within sewage works ‘cordon sanitaire’

13.11.2020

East of England | Health | living conditions | odour | sewage

An inspector has approved plans for a new home within the 400m exclusion zone of Chelmsford’s water recycling centre, noting that the area’s prevailing wind would carry odours away from the appeal site....

Appeal: Pandemic highlights student living conditions

13.11.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused plans for a ‘bland’ 10-storey block of student flats in Portsmouth, citing pandemic-induced changes to student life in rejecting the developer’s call for sunlight standards to be...

Appeal: Inadequate hotel parking would ‘severely impact’ residents

06.11.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for a 73-bedroom hotel in Southampton that would offer only 34 parking spaces have been blocked by an inspector, who found that the impact of overspill parking would have a ‘particularly severe’ impact...

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Appeal: Inspector rejects ‘gloomy’ flat conversion in Waltham Cross

28.10.2020

Huw Morris

A proposal to convert a mixed-use Waltham Cross property into two flats has been rejected after an inspector found the scheme would be ‘underlit and gloomy’ and create poor-quality accommodation.

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: Steelworks-adjacent housing rejected again

16.10.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to build 90 homes next to a major steelworks in Corby that can operate 24 hours a day have been rejected after the appellant failed to address concerns that saw its earlier application for 167 homes on...

Appeal: ‘Oppressive’ student accommodation rejected

18.09.2020

Matt Moody

Demographics & Population Growth | Health | living conditions | South East | student accommodation

Plans for 22 serviced apartments in Bournemouth that would feature an ‘impractically small'’ communal space and windows looking directly towards a blank wall would create an ‘oppressive’ effect, an inspector...

Appeal: Enforcement against helicopter operator’s night flights upheld

04.09.2020

Matt Moody

A helicopter operator’s plea for some flights to be allowed past 9pm, claiming that his proposal was ‘essential to the survival of the business’, has been rejected by an inspector, who cited the harmful...

Appeal: Design failures halt Romford regeneration scheme

30.07.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to build 110 new homes next to an office block in Romford already being converted into 109 flats under permitted development rules suffered from a range of issues that were ‘symptomatic of the site’s...

Appeal: Council defeated in Hackney warehouse enforcement inquiry

29.05.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has granted retrospective permission for the conversion of a former warehouse in north London into studio flats after a long-running dispute, ordering the council to pay partial costs.

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