noise impact

Appeal: Convenient location justifies WHO noise guidance breach

16.07.2021

An inspector has approved a new home directly next to a railway line in Hertfordshire, commenting that the site’s ‘locational benefits’ in terms of convenient access to jobs and services would ‘offset’...

Appeal: Double-decker takeaway would disrupt residents

18.06.2021

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | Environmental | noise impact | North West | Takeaway

Plans to serve hot food from a double-decker bus in a Manchester car park have been rejected by an inspector, who found that ‘comings and goings from customers’ would disrupt nearby residents, despite a...

Appeal: Gun testing ‘seriously detrimental’ to living conditions

11.06.2021

Matt Moody

Cymru | Environmental | Leisure & Tourism | noise impact

An inspector has refused retrospective permission for a gun-testing facility near Wrexham that was discovered following a complaint, ruling that the ‘startling and sporadic nature’ of the noise would be ‘...

Appeal: Garage floristry workshop plan would ‘disrupt’ neighbours

04.06.2021

Matt Moody

Retrospective permission for the use of a domestic garage as a florist’s workshop has been refused by an inspector, who found that comings and goings by couriers would unacceptably disrupt neighbours....

Appeal: Pheasant-rearing business could disrupt neighbours

30.04.2021

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | Cymru | livestock | noise impact

An inspector has refused permission for a pheasant-rearing business in rural Carmarthenshire, considering it ‘inevitable’ that 28,000 birds would make ‘some element of noise’ capable of disrupting nearby...

Legal briefs: Residents granted hearing against local plan decision; Southend Airport must pay noise compensation

09.04.2021

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 2 April-9 April, 2021

Appeal: Rule 6 party’s defence of its business persuades inspector

01.04.2021

Matt Moody

Plans for 134 homes next to a grade I listed events venue in Suffolk have been rejected, after the business successfully convinced an inspector that the scheme would violate the ‘agent of change principle’...

Appeal: Music condition at Rotherham pub not a Trojan horse

17.03.2021

Matt Moody

A bid to remove a condition attached to a 2016 permission for a pub’s outdoor bar that limited the playing of music anywhere outdoors has been denied by an inspector, who did not agree that the condition was...

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Appeal: Costs levied on council for blocking Surrey music festival site

12.03.2021

Matt Moody

Elmbridge Borough Council ‘failed to apply national policy in a rational way’ by blocking plans to use green belt land near Walton-on-Thames for music festivals and other events, an inspector has ruled,...

Appeal: Flats to adjoin theatre violate ‘agent of change’ principle

15.01.2021

Matt Moody

Plans for eight flats that would adjoin a community-run listed theatre in Wallingford would put it at ‘significant risk’ of noise complaints that could compromise its operation, as well as causing heritage...

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