parking

An inspector has sided with a homeowner who disputed a planning condition that required him to maintain 25 per cent of his front garden as soft landscaping, in light of parking pressures in the area.

Plans to convert an office block in Beckenham town centre into flats under permitted development rules could lead to ‘indiscriminate street parking’, an inspector has ruled.

A large-scale, mixed-use regeneration project in Bognor Regis inspired by Sir Richard Hotham has been approved, after an inspector found the plans represented ‘design excellence’.

An inspector has refused permission to convert a vacant former grocery and butcher’s shop in Luton into a restaurant and takeaway because it would harm the vitality of the rest of the shopping parade...