viability

Appeal: Notting Hill launderette is ‘necessary for modern urban living’

27.03.2020

An inspector has rejected plans to convert a West London launderette into a dental and medical surgery, ruling that both uses were community facilities that served different functions for local people....

Appeals round-up: ‘Pressing need’ justifies specialist dementia care centre; Outbuilding larger than main house ‘not genuinely required’

24.01.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 18 January-24 January, 2020

Appeal: ‘No evidence whatsoever’ behind mayor’s affordable housing demand

24.01.2020

Matt Moody

The housing secretary has approved a plan for 365 high-rise flats in Lewisham that was blocked by the Mayor of London for its ‘wholly unacceptable’ affordable housing offer, after an inspector found ‘no...

Appeals round-up: Larger extension preferred at site of listed farmhouse; Facebook post shows lagoon is immune from enforcement action

17.01.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 11 January-17 January, 2020

Appeal: Removal of affordable housing from approved scheme blocked

15.11.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | building costs | East of England | Finance & Viability | viability

An inspector has rejected a developer’s argument that a 2017 permission to build 10 homes in Norfolk with 20 per cent affordable housing was no longer viable because of a £600,000 increase in building costs...

Appeal: Build-to-rent Kingston scheme contrary to regeneration plan

30.08.2019

Matt Moody

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...

Appeal: Fallback position justifies lower affordable housing contribution

28.06.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | Finance & Viability | London | viability | WMS

Plans to convert and extend a property in Islington to create five flats can go ahead with only 20 per cent of the affordable housing contribution sought by the council, an inspector has ruled.

Square pillar being pushed into round hole

Square pegs, round holes

31.05.2019

Louise Brooke-Smith

Community Engagement | Finance & Viability | Louise Brooke-Smith | UK | viability

It's common sense to properly cost proposals before consulting on them and putting applications together, notes Louise Brooke-Smith. So why don't we consistently do that?

MHCLG seeking more viability testing at plan-making stage

28.05.2019

Martin Read

Laurence Martindale, head of local infrastructure at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), has explained the department’s continuing work to reform viability assessments at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Housing and Planning.

Appeals round-up: Notice upheld against front door that ‘depicts local landscapes’; Adlington micro-pub would not disrupt adjoined flats

12.04.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 6 April-12 April, 2019

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