privacy

Appeals round-up: Social benefits of greenhouse are 'very special circumstances'; Beer garden privacy outweighs 4m play frame

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

animals | building design | Business & Enterprise | Community Engagement | Design | Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | Green Belt | Heritage | infill development | inquiry | paragraph 79 | Planning Law | privacy | UK | victorian

A round-up of planning appeals: 14 September-20 September, 2019
Appeal: Beer garden privacy outweighs 4m play frame

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

East Midlands | Leisure & Tourism | overlooking | privacy | pubs

An inspector has blocked plans for a play frame that would directly overlook the beer garden of a neighbouring pub, finding ‘an unacceptable impact’' on patrons’ privacy.
Appeal: Success at second appeal for 252-bed Norwich student scheme

02.08.2019

Matt Moody

Demographics & Population Growth | East of England | Health | outlook | overlooking | privacy | student accommodation

Revised plans to build 252 units of student accommodation in Norwich's central conservation area can go ahead, an inspector has ruled, a year after the original application was rejected at appeal for harm to...
Appeal: 'Extremely cramped' industrial estate flats refused

17.07.2019

Matt Moody

Health | industrial estate | living conditions | outlook | privacy | space standards | West Midlands

An inspector has refused retrospective permission for the conversion of an industrial/commercial building in Birmingham into 12 'very small' flats, noting that occupants' possessions were 'spread on the...
Legal briefs: High Court rejects Tate Modern neighbours’ privacy challenge; South Gloucestershire loses High Court challenge

15.02.2019

Roger Milne

high court | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | local plan | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Planning Law | privacy | Public Realm | TfL | UK

A round-up of legal news: 9 February-15 February, 2019
High Court rejects Tate Modern neighbours’ privacy challenge

13.02.2019

Huw Morris

London | Planning Law | privacy | SOUTH BANK

The High Court has thrown out a challenge by residents of luxury flats overlooked by Tate Modern who tried to block visitors looking into their homes from the gallery’s viewing platform.
Appeal: Chelsea balustrade decision turns on definition of 'roof'

18.09.2018

Matt Moody

character and appearance | Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | London | Planning Law | privacy

An inspector has upheld an enforcement notice against a glass balustrade that was installed on the roof of a Chelsea townhouse, citing technical guidance published in 2017 relating to permitted development...
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.