space standards

Appeals round-up: Brokenshire blocks waste facility on highway safety grounds; Mental health accommodation would not harm community safety

26.07.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 20 July-26 July, 2019

Appeal: Staircase position would create 'unconventional' accommodation

26.07.2019

Matt Moody

building design | Design | Health | London | space standards

An inspector has refused plans for a mansard roof extension to create a one-bed flat in Hackney, ruling that even if the flat met minimum space standards, the positioning of its staircase would create a '...

Appeals round-up: Flats on site of burnt-out pub would be new ‘landmark’; Timber grieving canopy not inappropriate in green belt

18.07.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 13 July-19 July, 2019

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...

Appeal: Flats with no windows allowed under permitted development

10.07.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans to convert an industrial building in Watford into 15 bedsits, seven of which would have no windows, ruling that the scheme met the requirements of the GPDO.

Enforcement: Residents forced to eat in bed in Barnet flats

10.05.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against a semi-detached home converted into six ‘significantly cramped’ flats that had ‘little separation between sleeping and cooking facilities’.

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

20.02.2019

Matt Moody

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

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

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’.

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