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Brokenshire outlines permitted development plans

14.03.2019

Laura Edgar

Housing secretary James Brokenshire has outlined plans to extend permitted development on the high street, and to review conversions to residential use amid quality concerns.

Appeal: Conversion of artists’ workshop to ‘fine dining restaurant’ blocked

13.03.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector was not impressed by ‘unclear’ plans to convert a warehouse in Hackney currently in use as an artists’ workshop into a ‘fine dining restaurant and chill-out zone’ .

Appeals round-up: Retirement scheme’s affordable housing offer falls short by £1.2m; Former mineral extraction sandpit is greenfield land

08.03.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 2 March-8 March, 2019

Enforcement: Notice upheld against 13 Cambridge ‘hybrid use’ flats

07.03.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against 13 flats in central Cambridge let as short-term holiday accommodation after finding that they were in ‘some sort of hybrid use’ between use classes C1 (...

Appeals round-up: Elderly home support policy weighs against care home; Shipping container café allowed despite ‘design shortcomings’

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 23 February-1 March, 2019

Appeal: Garden shelter with no habitable rooms is residential use

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

Green Belt | Planning Law | South East | Use classes

An inspector has refused permission for a ‘garden shelter’ on green belt land in Surrey, considering the building a residential use despite acknowledging that it has ‘no habitable space’.

Enforcement: Petrol station Starbucks is ‘primary use within a mixed use’

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | enforcement notice | Use classes | Yorkshire

An inspector has granted retrospective permission for a service station in Leeds, following a dispute over whether the attached Starbucks coffee shop should be considered a separate planning unit.

Appeals round-up: Pub with dance floor ‘not a restaurant’; Council must pay costs for misinterpreting GPDO

15.02.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 9 February-15 February, 2019

Appeal: Pub with dance floor ‘not a restaurant’

14.02.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld an enforcement notice alleging the unauthorised change of use of a Glasgow restaurant to a pub, citing its dance floor, dart boards and ‘extensive programme of live music’.

Appeal: Dilapidated cricket ground is not an ‘existing’ use

17.10.2018

Matt Moody

Too much time has passed for a derelict cricket pavilion to be considered an ‘existing’ leisure use, an inspector has ruled, and plans to replace it would constitute a new building in the...

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