privacy

Appeal: 576-home scheme’s design ‘disappointing, not harmful’

27.08.2021

The demolition of a landmark office building in Stevenage to make way for 576 new homes can go ahead, an inspector has ruled, registering his ‘regret’ at the loss of the existing building and ‘disappointment...

Appeal: 115-room HMO’s windowless rooms would harm residents

11.06.2021

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans to convert a large hotel in north-west London into a 115-home HMO, commenting that even a period of three months would be ‘a significant time to be living in a place without...

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Appeal: Sorting office redevelopment would not be of high quality

30.04.2021

Matt Moody

Plans to replace a former postal sorting office in Harrow with a six-storey building offering 60 flats and commercial space were rejected by an inspector, who found that the scheme ‘would not achieve a high-...

Appeal: Design failures halt Romford regeneration scheme

30.07.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to build 110 new homes next to an office block in Romford already being converted into 109 flats under permitted development rules suffered from a range of issues that were ‘symptomatic of the site’s...

Appeal: Six-storey retirement block allowed next to existing gardens

07.05.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for 61 sheltered apartments can go ahead in Camberley, an inspector has ruled, deciding that an exception to the council's building design guidance was justified.

Enforcement: 20ft CCTV mast ‘intrusive’ to neighbour’s swimming pool

10.01.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against a homeowner who installed a 20ft CCTV mast in his rear garden that overlooked his neighbour’s outdoor swimming pool and bedroom balcony, calling it ‘...

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

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

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

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

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...

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