paragraph 55

Plans for a new home in Somerset submitted in 2016 under what is now NPPF paragraph 55 did not accord with a 2017 Court of Appeal ruling on the meaning of the word 'isolated', an inspector has ruled.

A home described as ‘exceptional’ by an independent design review body cannot be built on previously developed land in West Yorkshire, after an inspector found that the scheme’s harm to...

Plans for a new home in Dartmoor National Park would ‘fall far short of the high bar’ for design required by paragraph 79 of the revised NPPF, an inspector has ruled, calling an independent...

An inspector has blocked plans to convert a subterranean brick-vaulted reservoir in the Forest of Bowland AONB into a home, calling the scheme ‘visually intrusive’.