noise impact

An inspector has approved 29 homes on land surrounded on three sides by industrial businesses, despite the land having been allocated for employment use by the local council.

An inspector has approved a large acoustic fence near a major railway line in Barnet, north-west London, after ruling that the benefits of reducing noise from the railway would outweigh any visual harm....

Permission for a 42-month surface coal mining operation near Clay Cross, Derbyshire, was blocked after an inspector found it would require ‘an excessive degree of forbearance’ on the part of...

An inspector has ordered Leeds City Council to pay costs for behaving unreasonably after it wrongly withheld permission to convert a disused former doctor's surgery in Cross Gates into a Wetherspoons pub...