microflats

Appeals round-up: Whisky regulations justify distillery’s extended opening hours; ‘Agricultural machinery store’ is not an agricultural use

12.10.2018

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | Community Infrastructure | Design | Green Belt | Heritage | Housing | microflats | National Park | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Planning Law | self-build | settlement boundaries | skyscraper | UK | visual amenity | WHS

A round-up of planning appeals: 6 October-12 October, 2018
Enforcement: Brent ‘micro flats’ enforcement notice quashed

11.10.2018

Matt Moody

Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement notice | HMO | London | microflats | Planning Law

An inspector has quashed an enforcement notice issued by Brent Council against a family-sized home in Neasden that was allegedly converted into six self-contained flats owing to lack of evidence.
Lockdown: How planning enforcement is battling low quality micro-flats

11.10.2018

George Turner

Brent | Development Management & Enforcement | England | HMO | house in multiple occupation | Housing | lockdown | microflats

As a new licensing requirement for houses in multiple occupation comes into effect, George Turner reflects on the practice of cheaply converting homes into properties that deliberately blur the line between...