space standards

Appeal: No evidence that ‘oppressive’ flats would be tailored for disabled

20.02.2019

Matt Moody

Design | disability | floor space | Health | North East | space standards

An inspector has blocked plans to convert a pub into 12 assisted living units because they would be ‘oppressively constrained’, finding no evidence for the appellant’s claim that the flats had been ‘tailored...
Enforcement: ‘Industrial’ food prep in Notting Hill flat was more than a ‘hobby’

07.02.2019

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement notice | Leisure & Tourism | London | noise impact | Planning Law | restaurant | space standards

A London restaurateur who was once on Interpol’s most-wanted list has failed to overturn an enforcement notice alleging that the flat above his Notting Hill restaurant was being used to prepare food.
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Enforcement: Appellant admits altering email evidence under oath

06.02.2019

Matt Moody

Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | inquiry | London | Planning Law | space standards | subdivision

An appellant admitted under oath that he had produced false evidence showing that an email he had received in 2017 was sent in 2011, at an inquiry into enforcement action against his conversion of a South...
Appeal: Enforcement notice against ‘cramped’ garage studio upheld

31.08.2018

Matt Moody

Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | Health | London | space standards

An inspector has upheld an enforcement notice against a garage in Harrow that was converted into a studio flat, for its ‘failure to provide a reasonable standard of accommodation’.
Appeal: Inspector overrules Article 4 direction to approve Brighton HMO

07.06.2018

Matt Moody

Article 4 | Demographics & Population Growth | HMO | Housing | living conditions | South East | space standards

An inspector has overruled an Article 4 direction to allow the conversion of a house in Brighton to an HMO, ruling that it would provide ‘adequate accommodation’ despite failing to meet national...
Appeal: Hotel and flats scheme approved despite amenity space shortfall

18.05.2018

Matt Moody

extension | hotel | Housing | London | space standards

Plans to reconfigure and extend a building in Ilford to create a 40-bedroom hotel and 15 flats can go ahead, despite failing to meet private amenity space standards.
Appeal: No room to get dressed in toilet-to-studio flat conversion

09.02.2018

Matt Moody

amenity space | Housing | South East | space standards | studio flat

An inspector has blocked plans to convert the toilet room of a listed Southampton home into a studio flat, because it would have one-fifth of the floor space required by national standards.
London Plan: Density limits removed and new minimum space standards outlined

29.11.2017

Laura Edgar

Economic Growth | high density | Housing | London | London Plan | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | sadiq khan | sme builders | space standards

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has published his draft London Plan, which outlines proposals to make better use of land including creating places of higher density, and minimum space standards for different sized dwellings.