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Appeal: Independent living would not be the 'reality' of extra care facility

06.04.2018

An inspector has approved plans for 72 extra care units on the edge of Buckingham, ruling that the scheme would be policy-compliant because the units would not offer truly independent living despite being...

Appeal: Vacant unit preferred to takeaway in Luton

04.04.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused permission to convert a vacant former grocery and butcher’s shop in Luton into a restaurant and takeaway because it would harm the vitality of the rest of the shopping parade...

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Appeal: Trampoline park allowed on safeguarded industrial estate

16.02.2018

Matt Moody

Plans for a trampoline park in an industrial building reserved for employment use in the area’s core strategy can go ahead, after an inspector found no reasonable prospect of an employment use coming...

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Appeal: Sui generis ruling means council offices can become housing under GPDO

01.02.2018

Matt Moody

In granting prior approval for the conversion of council offices in Weymouth to 56 flats, an inspector rejected comparisons to London County Hall, which was classed as unique by the Court of Appeal in 1989...

Appeal: Extra care housing provides only ‘illusion’ of independent living

15.06.2017

An inspector has ruled that a proposed assisted living scheme in Cranbrook, Kent, would offer only ‘the illusion of independent living’, and should therefore fall under Class C2 (residential...

Taking a gamble on planning?

23.06.2014

Craig McLaren

Betting shops | change of use | Development Management & Enforcement | Scotland | use class order

The UK Government recently announced that it would be changing the use class order in England so that new bookmaker shops will have to submit a planning application. It is expected that this will lead to...