NPPF

Appeal: Smaller building would have greater ‘spatial presence’

06.12.2018

A plan to replace a garden workshop building in Dorset with a holiday home has been blocked for harm to green belt openness, after an inspector found that the new building would have a greater ‘spatial...

Appeal: Low density scuppers recovered housing scheme

06.12.2018

Matt Moody

The housing secretary has blocked plans for 203 homes near Milton Keynes against the advice of his inspector, citing a recent change to the definition of ‘deliverable’ in the revised NPPF....

Appeals round-up: Pub saved from residential conversion to maintain variety; Replacement of de-listed building refused in green belt

30.11.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 24 November-30 November 2018

Appeal: Affordable housing condition lifted in light of new NPPF

27.11.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has cited the revised NPPF in removing a negatively worded affordable housing condition from a 2016 housing permission, despite 'high and demonstrable' local need.

Appeals round-up: Wording of revised NPPF protects pub from conversion; Driving test centre run from hotel room can continue

16.11.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 10 November-16 November 2018

Appeal: Wording of revised NPPF protects pub from conversion

16.11.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused plans to convert a pub in the Gloucestershire countryside to residential use, citing the revised wording of the new NPPF regarding the retention of community facilities.

Appeal: Oxfordshire housing deal adds weight to refusal of 245-home scheme

14.11.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has blocked plans for 245 homes on unallocated land near the Chilterns AONB, citing the Oxfordshire housing deal and its 'key objective' of 'avoiding speculative and unplanned...

News report: New rules of engagement

05.11.2018

Simon Wicks

The Planner’s webinar on ‘effective engagement’ – sponsored by Commonplace – produced a range of insights into how planners and developers can improve...

Staffordshire councils delay joint plan consultation

01.11.2018

Laura Edgar

England | housing need | NPPF | Policy & Politics

Potential changes to the government's standard methodology for calculating housing need mean two Staffordshire councils have delayed consultation on their draft joint local plan.

Legal landscape: NPPF2 - sea of change?

30.10.2018

Paul Wakefield

Friends of the Earth’s challenge to the revised NPPF creates a knotty legal problem, says Paul Wakefield – what weight should be given to the new policy document should the challenge succeed?...

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