SSSI

Appeal: Historic garden restoration plans justify green belt home

31.10.2019

Matt Moody

building design | Design | Green Belt | Heritage | historic garden | listed building | North East | previously developed land | SSSI

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

ageing population | Environmental | Health | Medway Council | retirement homes | South East | SSSI

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

Green Belt | Housing | noise impact | North West | Planning Law | SSSI

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

02.06.2017

Roger Milne

Environmental | Infrastructure - Transport | online planning application | Planning Law | retail space | SSSI | UK | Waste & Recycling | waste incinerator

A round-up of legal news: 27 May-2 June, 2017
Appeal: 74-home scheme would have ‘negligible impact’ on air quality and ecology

09.05.2017

air pollution | Environmental | Housing | North East | SSSI

An inspector has granted permission for 74 homes near Knaresborough in North Yorkshire despite ‘deep-rooted’ opposition from local residents, after ruling that the scheme’s impact on local...
Appeal: Just one extra housemate could harm Dorset Heathlands

19.04.2017

Dorset | Environmental | HMO | Housing | South West | SSSI

An inspector has blocked plans to convert a room in a six-bed House of Multiple Occupation (HMO) into a seventh bedroom, after ruling that even one additional resident could harm the nearby Bourne Valley...
Appeal: 90 Herefordshire homes approved after wastewater funding dispute

21.11.2016

Martha Harris

grampian condition | Housing | SAC | SSSI | Waste & Recycling | waste water treatment works | West Midlands

Gladman Developments has been given the go-ahead to build 90 homes in Clehonger, Herefordshire, despite disagreements surrounding the implications of planning conditions to fund wastewater infrastructure...
Appeals round-up: 220 Somerset homes approved despite local plan contention; Clark backs Warwickshire solar park refusal

22.04.2016

Martha Harris

affordable housing | AONB | Climate Change | Design | Housing | Infrastructure | recovered appeals | Solar park | SSSI | UK

A round-up of appeal decisions: 16 April-22 April, 2016
Appeal: Norfolk housing would not harm SSSI woodland

22.04.2016

Martha Harris

East of England | five year housing land supply | Housing | SSSI

Gladman Developments has been granted permission to develop 180 homes in Watton, Norfolk, despite concerns about the effect of the proposal on the Wayland Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)....