SSSI

Appeal: ‘Innovative’ housing and education hybrid scheme rejected

28.08.2020

Plans to fund a technical college, careers hub and day nursery by building 120 homes near Hull have been blocked by an inspector, who called the appellant’s aim ‘laudable’ but could not support the site’s...

Appeal: 1.3-year housing supply justifies 76 homes in South Wales

19.06.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for 76 homes within a designated landscape area and beyond the nearest settlement boundary can go ahead because an inspector considered the council’s ‘serious’ housing shortfall a material...

Appeals round-up: Policy wording foils church conversion; Victorian conservation area building can make way for flats

15.05.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 8 May-15 May, 2020

Appeal: Jenrick blocks 516 homes next to ‘irreplaceable’ bog

15.05.2020

Matt Moody

Major housing plans for land next to a site of special scientific interest that were opposed by a cross-party group of MPs and Sir David Attenborough have been rejected by the housing secretary Robert...

Appeal: ‘World-class’ environmental assets at risk from golf course

28.02.2020

Matt Moody

Government ministers have refused plans to build an 18-hole golf course on sensitive coastal dunes in the Scottish Highlands. They ruled that the scheme’s environmental harm outweighed its economic benefits...

Appeal: Historic garden restoration plans justify green belt home

31.10.2019

Matt Moody

Plans for a ‘unique’ home in the grounds of a listed manor house would include restoration works to its historic gardens that would bring a ‘significant’ public benefit and would amount to ‘very special...

Appeal: ‘No pets’ policy for Hoo Peninsula retirement village

04.01.2019

Matt Moody

In approving a 50-home retirement village on the Hoo Peninsula, an inspector has upheld a unilateral undertaking banning residents from keeping pets to protect a nearby site of special scientific interest....

Homes for England to slash planned homes at Lodge Hill site

14.12.2018

Huw Morris

England | Homes for Englamd | Housing | Lodge Hill | SSSI

Homes for England is proposing to slash by three-quarters the number of homes to be built on a scheme in the Hoo Peninsula in Medway to avoid affecting a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

Appeal: 95 homes approved after site is removed from green belt

08.12.2017

Matt Moody

An inspector has allowed plans for 95 homes on the Merseyside coast, after the site was removed from the green belt and allocated for housing in the newly adopted local plan.

Courtroom Gavel - legal changes that affect planners

Legal briefs: Council fined £150k for publishing sensitive data in online planning documents

02.06.2017

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 27 May-2 June, 2017

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