living conditions
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03.05.2019A back-garden timber play-frame was allowing unacceptable overlooking of a neighbour’s garden, an inspector has ruled, despite the appellant’s attempts to screen views from the structure’s tower using...
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10.04.2019An Oxford councillor and former planning committee vice-chairman has won consent to convert an annexe to a separate home for his disabled son, 22 years after first seeking permission.
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26.03.2019Plans to convert a police station in Birmingham into a ‘supported living centre’ for vulnerable people would provide inadequate amenity space and poor levels of natural light, an inspector has ruled.
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30.01.2019Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement notice | four year rule | living conditions | London | outlook | Planning Law | sunlightAn inspector has upheld enforcement action against four flats in Islington, after the council produced evidence of emails the appellant sent in 2014 that contradicted his defence.
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25.01.2019Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | legal | living conditions | London | Planning Law | TCPAAn inspector has quashed an enforcement notice against an outbuilding in Stamford Hill under the four year rule, finding that even if 'no reasonable person' would consider the building a dwelling-house, it...
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10.01.2019brownfield | Design | East of England | Health | Housing | living conditions | outlook | Regeneration | RegenerationAn inspector has approved plans for the residential-led redevelopment of a brownfield site in Romford, despite acknowledging that eight of the apartments would have a ‘particularly gloomy’...
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17.10.2018Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | floor space | Health | living conditions | Planning Law | YorkshireAn enforcement notice against the unauthorised subdivision of a flat in Leeds has been quashed in light of sworn statements by its tenants referring to ‘a high degree of satisfaction’ with the...
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21.09.2018Demographics & Population Growth | Health | Heritage | listed building | living conditions | student accommodation | sunlight | YorkshirePlans to convert a listed former freemasons' hall in Huddersfield into 16 two-bedroom student flats have been blocked, after an inspector found that some of the flats would have no external windows or...
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17.09.2018Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | floor space | Health | living conditions | London | Planning LawAn inspector has upheld an enforcement notice issued by Brent Borough Council against a ‘modest’ home that was converted into five self-contained flats as small as 11 square metres, following a...
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14.09.2018People using a Flintshire personal trainer’s outdoor rope-climbing apparatus would be able to see into neighbouring gardens, causing unacceptable loss of privacy, an inspector has ruled.
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