previously developed land

Appeal: Housing scheme at green belt golf club rejected

24.04.2019

Matt Moody

brownfield | East of England | golf | Green Belt | Housing | housing land supply | Planning Law | previously developed land | Rural

An inspector has cited harm to green belt openness in refusing plans for 30 homes on brownfield land at a golf club near Basildon, despite the local council’s housing land supply of only 1.61 years.
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Appeal: Smaller building would have greater ‘spatial presence’

06.12.2018

Matt Moody

Green Belt | Leisure & Tourism | NPPF | openness | previously developed land | South West

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...
Appeals round-up: Leeds green space shortage precludes 46-home scheme; No consent for residential conversion of pub rebuilt after fire

23.11.2018

Matt Moody

ACV | allotments | Community Infrastructure | enforcement notice | Green Belt | green space | Health | Heritage | heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | listed building | motorway | Planning Law | previously developed land | Regeneration | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 17 November-23 November 2018
Appeal: Paddocks not ‘previously developed land’, rules inspector

23.11.2018

Matt Moody

Housing | previously developed land | strategic gap | Yorkshire

An inspector has refused plans for 75 homes at a riding school in North Yorkshire, after ruling that the school's adjacent paddocks were not within its curtilage and could not be considered ‘...
Appeal: Weak green belt border does not justify housing

20.11.2018

Matt Moody

Green Belt | Housing | North West | previously developed land

Plans for 19 homes near Warrington have been blocked after an inspector rejected the appellant’s argument that housing would strengthen the area’s weak green belt boundary.
Appeal: Historic hospital site in green belt not ‘previously developed’

10.05.2018

Matt Moody

Green Belt | hospital | Housing | previously developed land | Rural | Yorkshire

An inspector has refused a residential scheme on the site of a former isolation hospital near Barnsley because the land has been ‘given over to vegetation’ and cannot be considered ‘...
Appeal: Wartime demolition does not justify green belt home

10.05.2018

Matt Moody

Green Belt | history | Policy & Politics | previously developed land | Rural | West Midlands

An inspector has rejected plans to ‘replace' a house near Solihull that was demolished in 1941 as part of the war effort with a new dwelling, finding unacceptable harm to the green belt.
Appeal: Council's opposition to 141-home scheme ‘hard to understand’

15.01.2018

Matt Moody

East Midlands | Housing | landscape impact | Policy & Politics | previously developed land | spatial planning

An inspector has granted outline permission for 141 homes near Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, calling Huntingdonshire District Council’s stance on the accessibility of the site ‘hard to understand...
Appeal: Former reservoir development would not harm green belt

22.08.2016

Martha Harris

Green Belt | Housing | Infrastructure - Green | North West | previously developed land

United Utilities Property Services has been granted permission to demolish a existing redundant reservoir structure and erect three houses in Hartford, after judging that the scheme would not constitute...
Appeal: Green belt development would reduce impact on openness

01.07.2016

Martha Harris

five year housing land supply | Green Belt | Housing | previously developed land | recovered appeals | South East

Communities secretary Greg Clark has approved the development of 138 dwellings on the site of a former HSBC training centre in Bricket Wood, St Albans, after assessing that the scheme’s development of...