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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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Appeal: Chipping Norton high street scheme allowed with no affordable housing

27.09.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans to convert a grade-II listed high street shop building in Chipping Norton into flats and build another nine homes to its rear, accepting the appellant’s argument that...

Appeal: 135 homes blocked despite increased housing need in emerging plan

17.08.2018

Matt Moody

affordable housing | Housing | NPPF | South East | tilted balance

An inspector has cited Central Bedfordshire Council’s current housing land supply in blocking 135 homes, even though the council’s emerging local plan, which has been submitted for examination,...

Appeal: 100 homes allowed amid ‘clear lack of consistency’ in Bedfordshire

10.07.2018

Matt Moody

Housing | Paragraph 14 | South East | tilted balance

An inspector has approved plans for 100 homes in central Bedfordshire amid conflicting rulings from other inspectors on the status of the local development plan.

Appeal: Green light for ‘speculative’ 350-home Gloucestershire scheme

04.05.2018

Matt Moody

Housing | housing supply | South West | tilted balance | VALUED LANDSCAPE

An inspector has granted outline permission for 350 homes on unallocated countryside land north of Bristol, in light of the council’s ‘substantial’ housing land supply shortfall.

Appeal: Brownfield green belt scheme blocked despite 1.35-year housing supply

26.04.2018

Matt Moody

Plans to replace a group of derelict nursery glasshouses with housing that would reduce built footprint by 80 per cent would harm green belt openness, an inspector has ruled, refusing permission despite the...

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