replacement dwelling

Appeal: Outbuildings are listed and cannot be demolished, rules inspector

14.03.2019

Matt Moody

Heritage | listed building | replacement dwelling | South East

An inspector has blocked plans to demolish two outbuildings in the grounds of a grade-II listed house in Ledbury and replace them with an 'oddly contrived' new building comprising two homes.
Appeal: Modernist Hampstead home saved from demolition

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

architecture | building design | Design | Heritage | historic significance | London | modernist | replacement dwelling

A modernist home in Hampstead, previously owned by Baroness Serota, the late British Government minister and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, will not be demolished to make way for an ‘overly...
Appeals round-up: South London flats would be inaccessible to emergency services; Stable conversion inappropriate in green belt

10.08.2018

Matt Moody

access | Community Infrastructure | Environmental | flood risk | Green Belt | Housing | living conditions | planning obligations | replacement dwelling | Rural | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 4 August-10 August, 2018.
Appeal: Replacement of home with no foundations refused

10.08.2018

Matt Moody

fall-back | flood risk | Housing | Policy & Politics | replacement dwelling | West Midlands

An inspector has refused plans for a replacement home in Worcestershire, despite the appellant’s ‘recent discovery’ that the existing house does not have any substantive foundations and is...
Appeal: ‘Inappropriate’ green belt home preferred to fallback scheme

10.08.2018

Matt Moody

East of England | Green Belt | replacement dwelling | Rural

An inspector has approved plans for a replacement home in Epping despite branding it ‘inappropriate green belt development’, after deciding that it would be less harmful than the appellant’...
Appeal: Replacement home inappropriate in green belt owing to basement

04.01.2018

Matt Moody

basement | Green Belt | London | NPPF | Policy & Politics | replacement dwelling | Rural

A replacement home in Bromley would be inappropriate green belt development because its proposed basement would make it too large, an inspector has ruled, despite the basement being invisible from outside....
Appeal: Replacement dwelling allowed despite building mystery

15.12.2016

Martha Harris

Housing | Northern Ireland | planning appeals | replacement dwelling | Rural

A replacement dwelling has been allowed in place of an existing building in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, despite some contention over whether the building was formerly in use as a dwelling.