noise impact

An inspector has approved plans for the residential conversion of a South London pub’s upper floors that will force the business to curtail its live music offering, ruling that the pub’s ‘unique character’...

An inspector has refused retrospective permission for the conversion of an outbuilding in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, into a sweet shop, ruling that the appellant could not guarantee that only local...

A helicopter operator’s plea for some flights to be allowed past 9pm, claiming that his proposal was ‘essential to the survival of the business’, has been rejected by an inspector, who cited the harmful...

Plans to convert an office building in Salford near an electroplating facility that emits levels of noise ‘harmful to human health’ into flats were not rendered acceptable by the appellant’s plan to use...