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Appeal: Twin schemes approved despite design concerns

18.06.2021

Matt Moody

building design | Design | Finance & Viability | Housing | joint inquiry | London | parking | planning inquiry | sunlight | virtual inquiry

A developer’s applications to develop two separate sites in Loughton to provide a total of 424 new homes have both been improved by an inspector at a joint inquiry, notwithstanding the council’s view that...
Appeal: Persimmon scheme would not 'achieve a well-designed place’

17.03.2021

Matt Moody

antisocial behaviour | density | Design | design code | Housing | North East | parking

Plans submitted by Persimmon to build 97 homes on the edge of Middlesbrough have been rejected by an inspector, who found that the scheme would be contrary to a local design code and would fail to achieve a...
Appeals round-up: Construction hours extended at Suffolk homes site; Inspector backs extension to grade II listed building in Malton

04.12.2020

Matt Moody

access | Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement action | green wedge | Heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | listed building | parking | Planning Law | settlement boundaries | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 28 November-4 December, 2020
Appeal: Snooker hall conversion scheme a ‘missed opportunity’

04.12.2020

Matt Moody

landscaping | North West | parking | Planning Law | sui generis | wedding business

Plans to convert a former snooker hall in Manchester into a wedding venue would be a ‘missed opportunity’ to improve an area ‘dominated by open expanses of hardstanding’, an inspector has ruled.
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: Inadequate hotel parking would ‘severely impact’ residents

06.11.2020

Matt Moody

hotel | Infrastructure - Communications | Leisure & Tourism | living conditions | parking | South West

Plans for a 73-bedroom hotel in Southampton that would offer only 34 parking spaces have been blocked by an inspector, who found that the impact of overspill parking would have a ‘particularly severe’ impact...
Appeal: Permeable paving would harm listed water cure house

23.10.2020

Matt Moody

conservation area | Heritage | heritage asset | history | listed building | parking | surface drainage | West Midlands

Plans to install permeable paving at a listed building in Malvern, known as the town’s first hydropathic therapy establishment, to improve surface water drainage have been rejected after an inspector...
Appeal: £50m Southend leisure complex wins inspector’s approval

16.10.2020

Matt Moody

covid-19 | East of England | grants | heritage | leisure | Leisure & Tourism | parking | Regeneration

Plans to build a major leisure complex on a council-owned car park near the Southend seafront can go ahead after an inspector decided that the scheme’s economic benefits outweighed its conflict with the...
Appeal: Forth Bridge visitor centre parking dispute solved

21.08.2020

Matt Moody

Edinburgh | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | parking | Scotland | tourist attraction

Following a dispute over the amount of parking to be provided for a planned visitor centre at the Forth Bridge near Edinburgh, a reporter decided that the optimal number of spaces was halfway between the...
Appeal: Blood bank redevelopment approved despite local objections

24.07.2020

Matt Moody

building design | Design | Housing | housing density | housing land supply | Infrastructure - Transport | London | NHS | parking

A developer’s unpopular plans to build 86 flats at the site of a former NHS blood centre in Essex have been approved following a week-long inquiry, after an inspector deemed the density of the scheme...

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