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Appeals round-up: Paragraph 79 'hobbit house' not innovative; Housing scheme would harm national park more than 2km away

19.12.2019

Matt Moody

brownfield | crime | Design | Health | Heritage | heritage assets | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | living conditions | National Park | paragraph 79 | Rural | student accommodation | UK | urban extension

A round-up of planning appeals: 14 December-20 December, 2019
Appeal: Housing scheme would harm national park more than 2km away

19.12.2019

Matt Moody

Housing | housing shortfall | National Park | Peak District | Rural | West Midlands

An inspector has blocked plans for 154 homes in Staffordshire despite the council’s housing supply of just 1.54 years, citing harm to the setting of the Peak District National Park, whose boundary was more...
Appeals round-up: Private osteopath clinic is a community facility; 'Dual use' cabin with zip wire platform harmful to AONB

29.11.2019

Matt Moody

AONB | community facility | Development Management & Enforcement | Green Belt | Heritage | inquiry | listed building | National Park | NPPF | Planning Law | Policy & Politics | solar power | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 23 November-29 November, 2019
Appeal: ‘Idiosyncratic’ Keswick observatory tower would cause heritage harm

29.11.2019

Matt Moody

conservation area | Heritage | listed building | National Park | North West

An inspector has blocked plans to add an observatory tower to a grade II listed house in Keswick that would afford ‘unrivalled views’ of the Lake District, despite agreeing that the design was ‘deliberate,...
Enforcement: Action against national park falconry pens superseded

15.10.2019

Matt Moody

animal breeding | birds | Leisure & Tourism | National Park | Rural | South West

An inspector has granted permission for two ‘hack pens’ at a falconry breeding business in the New Forest that predates the area’s national park designation, superseding the council’s enforcement notice....
Appeal: NPPF footnote justifies Lake District wind farm extension

02.08.2019

Matt Moody

Infrastructure - Energy | inquiry | National Park | North West | NPPF | Planning Law | recovered appeal | repowering | rule 6 | Rural | wind energy

An inspector has become the first to interpret footnote 49 of the NPPF in ruling that an application to extend the life of a Lake District wind farm until 2028 constituted 'repowering' and, therefore, did...
Appeals round-up: Spa homes proposal rejected for harming protected sites; Financial trading antennae not allowed in green belt

14.06.2019

Matt Moody

amenity space | change of use | Community Engagement | crowdfunding | Design | Environmental | European protected species | Finance & Viability | Green Belt | green gap | Health | Heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | National Park | Public Realm | recovered appeal | Regeneration | Rural | sunlight | UK | wildlife | world heritage site

A round-up of planning appeals: 8 June-14 June, 2019
Appeal: Expansion of ‘predator experience’ allowed in national park

14.06.2019

Matt Moody

animals | Leisure & Tourism | National Park | North West | Rural | wildlife | world heritage site

An inspector has approved expansion plans at a tourist attraction in the Lake District offering ‘wolf walks’ and other experiences despite harm to the area’s World Heritage Site designation, noting that the...
Appeal: Mobility scooter access track harmed Wales national park

05.04.2019

Matt Moody

Cymru | Demographics & Population Growth | disability | engineering | Environmental | landscape | National Park

A track dug to provide access for a mobility scooter to a static caravan in the Pembrokeshire coast national park has been refused retrospective permission, after an inspector found that it had 'altered the...
Appeal: Permission to convert burnt-down goat shed refused

29.01.2019

Matt Moody

case law | Cymru | Design | fire safety | National Park | Rural

A goat shed in rural Pembrokeshire that was ‘ravaged’ by fire cannot be extended and converted into holiday accommodation even if restoring it to its previous state is deemed legal, an inspector has ruled....

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