motorway

Appeal: Housing allowed next to motorway despite air quality concerns

06.02.2020

Matt Moody

air quality | East Midlands | Health | Housing | living conditions | mechanical ventilation | motorway | noise

An inspector has granted outline permission for 90 homes adjacent to a four-lane stretch of the A1(M) motorway in Cambridgeshire, dismissing criticism of the appellant’s air quality assessment.
Appeal: Primate cabins rejected despite compulsory purchase order

03.05.2019

Matt Moody

animals | blight notice | compulsory purchase | Infrastructure - Transport | motorway | Rural | South West

An inspector has blocked six cabins intended to house a ‘private primate collection’ in the Dorset green belt, despite acknowledging that plans to widen the M4 motorway had forced the appellant to relocate...
Appeals round-up: Leeds green space shortage precludes 46-home scheme; No consent for residential conversion of pub rebuilt after fire

23.11.2018

Matt Moody

ACV | allotments | Community Infrastructure | enforcement notice | Green Belt | green space | Health | Heritage | heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | listed building | motorway | Planning Law | previously developed land | Regeneration | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 17 November-23 November 2018
Appeal: 193 homes allowed next to M61 motorway

04.09.2018

Matt Moody

affordable housing | air quality | Environmental | Housing | motorway | noise impact | North West

Plans for 193 homes near Preston can go ahead, an inspector has ruled, despite findings that noise from the nearby M61 motorway would breach international outdoor noise guidelines.
Legal briefs: Herefordshire council ‘bang to rights’ over noise issue; Top Surrey cop blames councils over traveller sites

31.08.2018

Matt Moody

Demographics & Population Growth | Environmental | Infrastructure - Transport | m28 | motorway | noise impact | traveller pitches | UK

A round-up of legal news: 25 August-31 August, 2018
Appeal: Inspector finds elegance in simple form of Brentford flats

28.08.2018

Matt Moody

air quality | Design | design | Environmental | living conditions | London | motorway | noise impact

Plans for nine flats adjacent to the M4 motorway can go ahead despite the council's air quality and noise concerns, after an inspector approved of the scheme's 'simple' design.
2,500 homes approved in Lincolnshire

01.08.2016

Laura Edgar

East Midlands | Highways England | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Lincolnshire | motorway

North Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee has granted approval for three planning applications that will see 2,500 homes built and improvements to the M181 motorway.
England round-up: Consultant: planning should be evaluated in same way as efficacy of drugs; housing dominates Farron’s agenda

25.09.2015

Laura Edgar

cumbria | England | Health | hinckley | Housing | Infrastructure | motorway | neighbourhood plan | planning | public land | renewable energy | tim farron

A round-up of planning news in England - 19 September-25 September, 2015