noise

Plans for 268 flats on a business park in Hemel Hempstead have been blocked by an inspector, who commented that the need for housing ‘should not compromise the drive for quality’, finding that residents’...

An inspector has granted personal permission for a Holbeach couple to keep up to 10 dogs at their home contrary to case law, citing the appellant’s wife’s success at Crufts and other dog shows.

An appeal has been allowed to modify the times for internal construction works on 40 homes in a Suffolk village after an inspector decided it would not harm the living conditions of neighbours.

Plans to convert an office in Luton into 22 flats under permitted development rules that would subject occupants to ‘occasional unacceptable noise’ without mitigation have been allowed after the appellant...