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Appeal: Council cites brownfield aspect of affordable housing WMS

22.06.2018

An inspector has refused 10 flats in Reading for failing to make an affordable housing contribution, after the council asserted that the ministerial statement on affordable housing should not apply to...

Appeal: Inspector upholds £37,000 affordable housing contribution for partition scheme

19.12.2017

Matt Moody

Plans to extend and then divide a detached home in Elmbridge to create two semi-detached homes must include a financial contribution of £37,000 towards affordable housing, ruled an inspector, because...

Appeal: Local circumstances outweigh ministerial statement in self-build home proposal

15.12.2017

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused a self-build home in Elmbridge, Surrey, for lack of an affordable housing contribution, despite a written ministerial statement saying no such contribution should be necessary....

Appeal: Ministerial statement outweighs core strategy, rules inspector

09.11.2017

Matt Moody

In refusing a plan for seven homes in Camberley on character and appearance grounds, an inspector ruled that the 2014 ministerial statement on affordable housing carried more weight than local policy....

Appeals round-up: 423 homes allowed in local gap under paragraph 14; Inspector dismisses ministerial statement on affordable housing

13.10.2017

A round-up of planning appeals: 9 October-15 October, 2017

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Appeal: Inspector dismisses ministerial statement on affordable housing

09.10.2017

affordable housing | Housing | London | Planning Law | written ministerial statement

An inspector has decided that the need for affordable housing in Richmond should carry more weight than the 2014 ministerial statement on the subject, allowing one scheme and dismissing another on that basis...

Appeal: Affordability of ‘starter homes’ cannot be a reserved matter

04.07.2017

An inspector has refused outline permission for eight ‘affordable’ starter homes, rejecting the appellant's suggestion that he would secure their affordable status through a fully detailed...

Appeal: Broader obligation preferred for split 28-home development

06.06.2017

An inspector has ruled that two separate but adjoining housing schemes should be considered part of the same development, despite one having already been granted permission without planning obligation...

Appeal: Affordable housing condition removed from Norwich scheme

20.10.2016

Martha Harris

A condition preventing commencement on a four-home scheme until an affordable housing provision had been agreed has been quashed by an inspector because of the Court of Appeal ruling on small site exemptions...