paragraph 79

Appeal: Design panel support justifies ‘exceptional’ home permission

29.05.2019

Matt Moody

building design | Design | disability | paragraph 79 | West Midlands

In approving plans for a detached home and artisanal metalworks in Shropshire, an inspector gave ‘great weight’ to comments from the Midland Architecture and the Designed Environment (MADE) review panel,...
Appeals round-up: Waitrose rear entrance must stay open despite crime concerns; Paragraph 79 home 'not isolated' under Braintree ruling

24.05.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | building design | care home | crime | Demographics & Population Growth | Design | Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement notice | Finance & Viability | Heritage | HMO | Housing | paragraph 79 | Planning Law | supermarket | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 18 May-24 May, 2019
Appeal: Paragraph 79 home 'not isolated' under Braintree ruling

23.05.2019

Matt Moody

building design | Design | paragraph 55 | paragraph 79 | Planning Law | South West

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.
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Appeals round-up: Retirement scheme’s affordable housing offer falls short by £1.2m; Former mineral extraction sandpit is greenfield land

08.03.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | Business & Enterprise | Design | Development Management & Enforcement | Finance & Viability | Green Belt | Heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | Minerals | minerals | paragraph 79 | pubs | UK | Use classes

A round-up of planning appeals: 2 March-8 March, 2019
Appeal: ‘Truly outstanding’ paragraph 79 home would not be isolated

07.03.2019

Matt Moody

AONB | braintree judgement | building design | Design | paragraph 55 | paragraph 79 | Planning Law | Rural | South West

An inspector has rejected plans for a home in the Mendip Hills AONB despite its ‘truly outstanding’ design, because it could not be considered ‘isolated’ under NPPF paragraph 79 in light of the Court of...
Appeals round-up: Additional pub could make evening activity ‘bubble over’; Replacement footpath stile would not improve AONB accessibility

11.01.2019

Matt Moody

accessibility | affordable housing | antisocial behaviour | AONB | building design | Climate Change | climate change | Demographics & Population Growth | Design | Development Management & Enforcement | Environmental | Finance & Viability | Green Belt | Health | Heritage | homelessness | Leisure & Tourism | paragraph 79 | Planning Law | pubs | Regeneration | Rural | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 6 January-11 January, 2019
Appeal: Green belt home blocked despite design board support

11.01.2019

Matt Moody

building design | Design | Green Belt | paragraph 55 | paragraph 79 | Yorkshire

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...
Appeal: Community facilities fail to outweigh spatial strategy conflict

24.09.2018

Matt Moody

community facility | Community Infrastructure | East Midlands | paragraph 79 | spatial strategy

A 12-home scheme in Nottinghamshire that would enable several community facilities has been rejected for conflicting with the council's spatial strategy, despite the site’s location next to the...
Appeals round-up: 64-home scheme will see double housing allocation built; Enforcement order to remove second kitchen quashed

14.09.2018

Matt Moody

court of appeal | Design | Development Management & Enforcement | Finance & Viability | Green Belt | Housing | housing allocation | housing need | overlooking | paragraph 55 | paragraph 79 | privacy | UK | viability

A round-up of planning appeals: 8 September-14 September, 2018.
Appeal: Dartmoor home would ‘fall far short’ of NPPF paragraph 79 design bar

14.09.2018

Matt Moody

Design | National Park | paragraph 55 | paragraph 79 | South West

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...