replacement dwelling

Appeal: Two green belt homes allowed under separate exceptions

16.07.2021

A scheme that involved replacing a property in the green belt with a new home as well as building an additional ‘infill dwelling’ at the site has been approved by an inspector, who found that both parts of...

Appeals round-up: Replacement home would lack ‘modest qualities’; Traveller pitches refused on previously developed green belt land

05.03.2021

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 27 Februrary-5 March, 2021

Appeal: Replacement home would lack ‘modest qualities’

05.03.2021

Matt Moody

Plans for demolish a locally listed Arts and Crafts-style home in Watford to make way for a larger replacement have been blocked by an inspector, who found that the design of the ‘imposing’ new home lacked ‘...

Appeal: Replacement green belt home deemed ‘materially larger’

07.05.2020

Matt Moody

Green Belt | paragraph 145 | replacement dwelling | Rural | Yorkshire

A replacement green belt home with a footprint just 0.1 square metres larger than the existing building would be ‘materially larger’ an inspector has ruled, noting that the building’s volume would be around...

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

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

A round-up of planning appeals: 4 August-10 August, 2018.

Inkberrow Village Green / Colin Craig (Geograph): 1752907

Appeal: Replacement of home with no foundations refused

10.08.2018

Matt Moody

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

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....

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