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Appeal: Housing supply dispensation upheld despite missed deadline

06.11.2020

A ministerial statement reducing the housing supply required of Oxfordshire authorities to three years to help them deliver the Oxfordshire joint spatial plan remains in effect despite the deadline for the...

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Appeal: Inspector refuses Somerset village homes for failing ‘tilted balance’

30.10.2020

Huw Morris

Environmental | Housing | planning appeal | South West | tilted balance

Planning permission has been refused for seven homes at the edge of a Somerset village after an inspector ruled the 'tilted balance' showed the scheme’s harm significantly outweighed its benefits.

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‘Landmark’ housing supply judgment praised

12.06.2020

Roger Milne

Gladman Developments | Planning Law | Scotland | tilted balance

Lawyers have hailed a judgment by the Court of Session as a landmark decision that establishes for the first time in Scotland the use of the ‘tilted balance’ in cases where there is a shortfall in housing land supply.

Appeal: Local housing policy overruled in 181-home decision

20.03.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for 181 homes on unallocated land in Devon, challenging the council’s interpretation of its own spatial policies and ruling that they were not meant to ‘cap’ new housing....

Appeal: Flats to replace Victorian hotel would not 'sit quietly'

31.01.2020

Matt Moody

building design | Design | North West | tilted balance

An inspector has blocked plans to replace a Victorian hotel in New Brighton with a block of 14 apartments, ruling that rather than allowing it to 'sit quietly within the street scene', the building's '...

Appeals round-up: Demolition of listed factory facade approved; Action against Welsh seaside adventure business upheld

12.12.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 7 December-13 December, 2019

Appeal: 'Real and fundamental' policy clash precludes 160-home scheme

12.12.2019

Matt Moody

East Midlands | Housing | spatial planning | tilted balance

Plans for 160 homes on greenfield land in south Cambridge have been blocked, after an inspector ruled that the scheme's conflict with local spatial policy carried decisive weight in light of the council's...

Appeal: Third rejection against inspector's advice for 184-home scheme

08.11.2019

Matt Moody

The housing secretary has refused plans for 184 homes in Cheshire against the recommendation of a planning inspector for the third time since the application was submitted in 2013, following the appellant's...

Appeal: Windsor scheme allowed despite ‘poor design practice’

10.05.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved 217 flats and 16,000 square metres of office space on brownfield land in Windsor, ruling that the scheme’s benefits outweighed its design problems.

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Appeal: 375-home scheme would harm Aylesbury Vale landscape

14.11.2018

Matt Moody

Housing | landscape character | South East | tilted balance | visual impact

An inspector has blocked plans for 375 homes near the village of Stoke Mandeville, ruling that the scheme’s benefits could not outweigh the unacceptable harm it would cause to the surrounding...

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