NPPF

Court of Appeal backs judge and inspector’s decision

13.01.2021

Laura Edgar

court of appeal | England | Housing | NPPF | paragraph 11 | Planning Law | rural housing | tilted balance

The Court of Appeal has upheld decisions issued by a planning inspector and a planning judge to dismiss a developer’s appeals following Aylesbury Vale District Council’s failure to determine its application.
Appeal: 180-home scheme would help to fill ‘plan-led lacuna’

25.11.2020

Matt Moody

contamination | East Midlands | high court | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | NPPF | traffic impacts

An inspector has granted outline permission for 180 homes in the Amber Valley, ruling that the scheme’s impact on traffic in the area would not reach the NPPF threshold of ‘severe’ required for withholding...
Appeals round-up: Light-blocking building allowed with reduced affordable housing; Local house prices outweigh NPPF guidance

06.11.2020

Matt Moody

affordable housing | Business & Enterprise | called-in decision | Demographics & Population Growth | Design | disability | Finance & Viability | Health | Heritage | hotel | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | live music | NPPF | parking | pubs | sunlight | UK | WMS

A round-up of planning appeals: 31 October-6 November, 2020
Appeal: Local house prices outweigh NPPF guidance

06.11.2020

Matt Moody

affordable housing | Finance & Viability | London | NPPF | small sites

A proposal to build a single home in Richmond-upon-Thames should incur an affordable housing contribution, notwithstanding national guidance exempting schemes of fewer than 10 homes, an inspector has ruled,...
Appeal: Maidstone care home rejected for breaching national and local policies

27.10.2020

Huw Morris

care home | Community Infrastructure | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | NPPF | public transport | South East

Outline permission to demolish buildings and replace them with a care home in the countryside outside Maidstone has been refused because the proposal conflicts with a core principle in the National Planning...
Appeal: Lidl retail store approved despite conflict with Wirral plan

27.10.2020

Huw Morris

Business & Enterprise | business park | Finance & Viability | lidl | North West | NPPF | supermarket

Planning permission has been granted for a retail store in a designated industrial area in Bromborough despite its conflict with the development plan.
Appeal: Inspector criticises ‘painfully out of date’ local plan

11.09.2020

Matt Moody

emerging plan | Housing | NPPF | settlement boundaries | South East | stansted airport

In approving plans for 40 homes on countryside land near Stansted Airport, an inspector has heavily criticised Uttlesford District Council's local plan, remarking that it ‘had been out of date longer than it...
Called in: Communities secretary blocks opencast mine for second time

11.09.2020

Matt Moody

called-in decision | coal mine | Environmental | mining | North East | NPPF | open cast | Planning Law

Robert Jenrick has rejected plans for a coal mine near the Northumberland coast for a second time, citing changes to the NPPF that had been implemented since the High Court quashed his predecessor Sajid...
Covid-19: Staycations key to supporting tourism sector

17.08.2020

Laura Edgar

Coronavirus | Leisure & Tourism | Lichfields | NPPF | tourism | UK

Domestic travel around the UK will be important to safeguarding domestic tourism and the support of jobs as part of the recovery from Covid-19.
Appeal: GPDO scheme’s sealed windows not acceptable

14.08.2020

Matt Moody

GPDO | Health | noise impact | North West | NPPF | sealed windows | WHO

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...

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