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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: 270-home scheme found contrary to core strategy

17.07.2019

Matt Moody

East Midlands | Gladman Developments | Housing | infill development | spatial strategy

An inspector has blocked plans for 270 homes on the edge of East Goscote, a village in Leicestershire, ruling that a policy directing 500 homes towards the village and others of a similar size 'clearly...

Appeal: Community facilities fail to outweigh spatial strategy conflict

24.09.2018

Matt Moody

community facility | Community Infrastructure | East Midlands | paragraph 79 | spatial strategy

A 12-home scheme in Nottinghamshire that would enable several community facilities has been rejected for conflicting with the council's spatial strategy, despite the site’s location next to the...

Appeal: 64-home scheme will see double housing allocation built

10.09.2018

Matt Moody

East of England | Housing | housing allocation | spatial strategy

A housing scheme that would bring the total number of homes planned in Heacham, Norfolk, to double the number allocated in the local development plan can go ahead, an inspector has ruled.

Appeal: 200-home scheme is incompatible with spatial strategy

04.09.2018

Matt Moody

East of England | Housing | NPPF revision | settlement boundaries | spatial strategy

Plans for 200 homes in Norfolk have been refused for conflict with the local development plan, after an inspector found ‘nothing novel or onerous’ in the requirements of its spatial strategy....

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Appeal: Green light for affordable homes fronting industrial estate

01.06.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved 29 homes on land surrounded on three sides by industrial businesses, despite the land having been allocated for employment use by the local council.

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Appeal: Community support not proved for 325-home village extension

16.02.2018

Matt Moody

A ‘sustainable extension’ to a Lincolnshire village that would more than double its size has been refused permission after the appellant failed to convince an inspector that there was ‘...