local plan

Legal briefs: QPR facility challengers fail to score; Essex local plan challenge heads to court

06.04.2018

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 31 March-6 April, 2018

Appeal: Javid overrules three inspectors to block 353 homes in Waverley

04.04.2018

Matt Moody

The housing secretary has dismissed recommendations to allow three housing schemes near Farnham, Surrey, for a total of 353 homes, refusing each for conflict with the Farnham Neighbourhood Plan.

Appeal: 1,800 homes for Surrey aerodrome branded ‘unsustainable location’ in 2009

29.03.2018

Matt Moody

Following a number of delays, the housing secretary has announced his decision to allow 1,800 at Dunsfold Park in Surrey, ruling that the scheme would accord with the newly adopted Waverley Local Plan....

Appeals round-up: 400-home scheme would not preclude road development; Green belt home would not meet ‘high bar' of paragraph 55

24.11.2017

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 20 November-26 November, 2017

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Appeal: 300 homes refused 20m from sustainable location

20.10.2017

Matt Moody

East of England | Housing | local plan | sustainable | tilted balance

An inspector has refused permission for 300 homes in Suffolk because the appeal site was unsustainably located, despite it being just 20 metres away from the town of Kesgrave, found to be a sustainable...

Appeal: Javid allows 108-home scheme in light of 1.9-year supply

13.10.2017

Matt Moody

The secretary of state has overturned Arun District Council's decision to reject 108 homes near Yapton, West Sussex, ruling that the area’s ‘severe’ housing supply shortfall of at least...

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Appeal: Flats scheme would fly in face of Bournemouth conservation area

21.07.2017

Huw Morris

An appeal to demolish a house and build a block of seven flats in a Bournemouth conservation area has been dismissed.

Appeal: 21-home ‘garden village’ scheme is ‘simply not necessary’

05.07.2017

An inspector has refused plans for a 21-home ‘garden village’ near Winchester, saying there was no need to build on greenfield land as the recently adopted local plan allocates enough sites to...

Appeal: ‘Substantial reconstruction’ clause does not apply to extensions, rules inspector

06.06.2017

An inspector has approved plans for the infill extension and conversion of various agricultural buildings into a single dwelling in Suffolk, ruling that local policy disallowing ‘substantial...

Appeal: National grid stability eclipses local plan conflict

17.05.2017

electricity grid | Infrastructure - Energy | local plan | South East

A battery energy storage facility near Hook in Hampshire has been given planning permission, after an inspector ruled that the stability of electricity supply in the area outweighed local countryside...

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