Regeneration

Tomorrow town: The future of the high street

14.05.2019

Serena Ralston

Town centres as we know them seem to be in decline. Is this inevitable? Serena Ralston asks: How do we...

Why we need to start talking about regeneration

02.05.2019

Tim Reade

The drive to meet housebuilding targets need to be integrated into a broader conversation about the regeneration of communities, argues Tim Reade

Appeal: Tower that could ‘constrain regeneration plans’ allowed

16.04.2019

Matt Moody

Housing | London | premature | Regeneration | tall buildings

An inspector has approved plans for an eight-storey tower in Catford comprising 42 flats, despite acknowledging that it could ‘constrain’ future plans to regenerate the Plassy Island area.

Appeal: 10 HMOs allowed above Smethwick high street

12.03.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved a developer’s plans to regenerate a high street terrace on the outskirts of Birmingham by converting its upper floor into 10 HMOs – despite an objection from the police.

Appeal: Romford scheme would not be ‘profligate’ use of brownfield site

10.01.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for the residential-led redevelopment of a brownfield site in Romford, despite acknowledging that eight of the apartments would have a ‘particularly gloomy’...

Appeal: Regeneration of Rainham site is ‘of London-wide importance’

22.11.2018

Matt Moody

Plans to build 56 flats and three houses on a neglected roadside near Rainham, East London, can go ahead, an inspector has ruled, after the appellant sacrificed a portion of its projected profits to improve...

Appeal: Wholesalers would be unable to exclude general public

26.10.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused permission for three businesses in an area of Oldbury safeguarded for wholesale trade, finding no mechanism to ensure that only tradespeople and not members of the public could...

Appeals round-up: Protected trees to make way for Wrexham housing scheme; Business use preferred to continuation of community centre

06.07.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 30 June-6 July, 2018

Appeal: Privately funded Bognor Regis regeneration scheme gains approval

06.07.2018

Matt Moody

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’.

Convention 2018: Are growth deals helping UK regions?

30.05.2018

David Blackman

The first devolution deals were aimed mostly at large conurbations in the UK, often those in post-...

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