spatial planning

Planning (Scotland) Bill: The final hurdle

13.06.2019

Laura Edgar

A total of 223 amendments to the Planning (Scotland) Bill have been tabled ahead of stage 3 in the Scottish Parliament next week. Here, The Planner looks at just a few of them.

Appeal: Housing plans blocked again at formerly allocated site

14.05.2019

Matt Moody

A reporter has blocked a second application by Gladman Developments to build up to 119 homes on land outside Linlithgow, west of Edinburgh, which was removed from the council's housing allocation plan...

Appeal: Housing scheme upgrade allowed in Aberdeenshire

09.11.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for 142 homes in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, superseding an extant permission for 109 homes on the site that already met its ‘indicative capacity’ as set out in the...

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...

Appeal: Care home allowed on site allocated to recreation use

18.09.2018

Matt Moody

A 64-bed care home has been approved on land reserved for ‘recreation use’ in the local development plan, after an inspector found the Bicester area’s need for care facilities to be a...

Appeal: ‘Market will decide’ fate of Devon cattle market site

10.05.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for 55 homes on a former cattle market in Devon allocated in the emerging local plan for a food store, despite landowner Tesco’s decision to withdraw its plans for a new...

Ramsey, Cambridgeshire / Richard Humphrey

Appeal: Council's opposition to 141-home scheme ‘hard to understand’

15.01.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has granted outline permission for 141 homes near Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, calling Huntingdonshire District Council’s stance on the accessibility of the site ‘hard to understand...

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Appeal: Technical breach of policy 'no justification to withhold permission'

05.01.2018

Matt Moody

Plans to build 85 homes in Bedfordshire will go ahead, after an inspector ruled that the scheme would accord with the development plan 'when read as a whole', despite a 'technical breach' of...

Appeal: ‘Care village’ would more than double population of existing settlement

17.11.2017

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused plans for a ‘care village’ comprising 145 assisted living units near Beckford, a Worcestershire village with an existing population of just 260, because it would be...

Appeal: Scottish ministers block 140-home green belt scheme

07.06.2017

Scottish ministers have upheld a reporter's decision to block a 140-home scheme on green belt land in East Dunbartonshire, ruling that the council’s demonstration of a five-year housing supply...

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