living conditions

An inspector has granted planning permission for a residential tower on Newcastle’s Quayside after deciding that the development would not harm local heritage, and was justified by the benefits it would...

The proposed conversion of a floor of office space into five flats in Camden, London, has been dismissed after an inspector identified a range of problems with the proposal, including the standard of living...

Plans to demolish a hotel forming part of a Victorian terrace in Ilford to make way for an eight-storey replacement have been blocked by an inspector, who found it ‘difficult to envisage’ how the building...

Prior approval to add an additional storey to an East London apartment block has been refused by an inspector, who found that the scheme would unacceptably diminish daylight levels reaching the existing...