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Interactive roadmap seeks to aid improvement of town centres

30.07.2020

Laura Edgar

high streets | Regeneration | town centre | UK

The Better Towns Roadmap consortium has launched an interactive roadmap to help to ‘transform’ towns across the UK.
Appeal: Vacated post office remains a community facility

19.06.2020

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | community facility | residential conversion | shopping | South West | town centre

An inspector has rejected plans to convert a former post office to residential use after it moved its services into a nearby convenience store, ruling that the unit could still support the community.
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Appeal: Modular beauty pod allowed despite vacant shop units

12.06.2020

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | modular construction | retail | shopping | South East | town centre

A prefabricated retail ‘pod’ housing a barbershop and beauty salon in Harlow town centre has received retrospective permission after an inspector decided that it contributed to the vitality of the shopping...
Appeal: Industrial estate café is contrary to town centre policy

24.04.2020

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | Cymru | industrial estate | sequential test | town centre

Plans for a café to serve workers on an industrial estate in Newport, South Wales, have been rejected after an inspector found conflict with local policy directing café uses towards town centres.
Appeal: Noise from ultrasound scanners ruled ‘extremely limited’

14.02.2020

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | Health | healthcare | noise impact | South East | town centre

An inspector has deleted a condition limiting the opening hours of a pregnancy ultrasound clinic in Alton, Hampshire, noting that the noise impact on neighbours from the scanning equipment was ‘extremely...
Appeals round-up: Fourth pizza takeaway in Eltham street would add ‘vibrancy’; Historic Bletchley Park hall saved from demolition

27.09.2019

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | conservation area | daylight | Environmental | Finance & Viability | GPDO | Health | Heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | recoveredappeal | Regeneration | self-build | town centre | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 21 September-27 September, 2019
Appeal: Fourth pizza takeaway in Eltham street would add ‘vibrancy’

25.09.2019

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | London | shopping | Takeaway | town centre

An inspector has approved plans for a Papa John’s takeaway in Well Hall, Eltham, ruling that the three existing pizza takeaways on the same street ‘indicated the popularity of that type of food’.
100 towns to benefit from funding

09.09.2019

Laura Edgar

Economic Growth | England | Public Realm | robert jenrick | town centre

Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has announced that 100 towns that are eligible for support from the £3.6 billion Towns Fund, which was founded in July.
Appeals round-up: Lack of parking rules out community pizzeria; Withdrawn local plan helps to justify 322-home scheme

30.08.2019

Matt Moody

Community Infrastructure | Design | eco-dwelling | emerging plan | Finance & Viability | Heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Energy | Infrastructure - Transport | Leisure & Tourism | listed building | paragraph 79 | parking | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Regeneration | Rural | school | town centre | UK | wind farm

A round-up of planning appeals: 24 August-30 August, 2019
Appeal: Build-to-rent Kingston scheme contrary to regeneration plan

30.08.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | brownfield | Build to Rent | conservation area | Design | Heritage | Leisure & Tourism | London | music venues | nightclub | Regeneration | town centre | viability

Plans to demolish a popular former music venue and other post-war buildings in Kingston upon Thames to make way for a mixed-use scheme including 311 flats would conflict with the council’s vision for the...

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