viability

Appeal: Pub conversion denied following 10-year battle

16.04.2021

A community group’s decade-long battle to save a 239-year-old pub from its multimillionaire owner’s plans to convert it has won the backing of an inspector, who found that it could still reopen as a viable...

Appeal: Larger scheme allowed on MOL land after appeal success

01.04.2021

Matt Moody

A developer that saw plans to build on metropolitan open land in South London rejected five times before succeeding at appeal in 2019 has won permission for a larger scheme on the same site, after an...

Appeal: Co-living scheme allowed with no affordable housing

26.03.2021

Matt Moody

Plans for a five-storey co-living development and replacement hostel in East London can go ahead following a four-day inquiry, after an inspector decided that the scheme was ‘unlikely to be viable’ if an...

Appeal: Post-war estate’s last remaining pub saved from demolition

12.02.2021

Matt Moody

A developer’s plan to demolish a Bristol housing estate’s last remaining pub to make way for seven homes has been blocked by an inspector, who highlighted the building’s architectural value and its...

Appeal: Plans to replace pub with retirement flats blocked

05.02.2021

Matt Moody

Plans to demolish The Blackburne Arms, a popular Warrington pub, to make way for 52 retirement flats have been blocked by an inspector, who noted that it had been trading until the Covid-19 pandemic forced...

Appeal: Lack of affordable housing gets 400-home scheme rejected

29.01.2021

Matt Moody

An inspector cited a major developer’s zero per cent affordable housing offer in refusing plans for 400 homes near Manchester, saying that it would have reduced the risk to the developer ‘at the expense of...

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Appeal: Hotel conversion would cause unacceptable job losses

11.12.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans to convert a 12-bedroom hotel in a small Yorkshire village into self-catered holiday accommodation, citing unacceptable job losses and harm to the community.

Appeal: Pub closed one year after acquisition cannot be converted

20.11.2020

Matt Moody

A listed pub in Essex, that closed just over a year after being acquired, cannot be converted into a home following an inspector's ruling that the appellant's evidence 'fell far short' of justifying the...

Appeals round-up: Approved housing will support marginally viable pub; Airbnb use for undersized flat approved

11.09.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 5 September-11 September, 2020

Appeal: Approved housing will support marginally viable pub

10.09.2020

Matt Moody

Plans to convert a marginally viable pub in Norfolk that closed in 2018 into a house were rejected by an inspector, who ruled that the 100 new homes approved for the village would ‘increase the need for the...

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