In denying planning permission for a new bungalow in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage site, an inspector made it clear that he was unimpressed with the lack of regard for the historic setting shown by the proposals (DCS Number 400-024-038).
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Bah humbug
The cold within a planning inspector “froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice” as the old Scrooge dismissed a recent appeal against the refusal of planning permission for a Christmas market in York (DCS Number 400-024-155).
News from PlanningResource
- City council green-lights central Oxford’s ‘first new college of the 21st century’ August 17, 2020Permission has been granted for three existing university buildings to be converted to form Oxford’s 39th college within the city’s central conservation area.
- How the planning white paper would change ... planning enforcement August 17, 2020A promise to "review and strengthen" council's enforcement powers and sanctions if new development does not meet the required design and environmental standards, including consideration of higher fines, features in the government's new planning white paper.
- 'Affordability row over plans for 700-home brownfield development' August 17, 2020A dispute over plans for 700 homes on a former gasworks site in Brighton leads our round-up of today's newspapers and news websites.
- Five authorites to pilot new spatial nature recovery strategies August 17, 2020Five local authorities are to trial the creation of new "local nature recovery strategies" (LNRS) which are intended to "support better spatial planning for nature", the government has announced.
- Thurrock Council secures injunction to block illegal development on 40-hectare green belt site August 17, 2020An Essex local authority has secured an interim High Court injunction to prevent unauthorised works on a 40-hectare green belt site - the latest in a series of court interventions by the council to restrict illegal works taking place at the location.
- High Court grants council permission to challenge inspector's green belt traveller site permission August 14, 2020The High Court has allowed a council to pursue a legal challenge to a planning inspector's decision to block its attempts to shut down a traveller encampment in the Merseyside green belt.
- Essex council gains interim injunction to prevent caravan park or travellers' camp on site August 14, 2020Brentwood Borough Council in Essex has taken preemptive High Court action to block development of land that it fears could become an unauthorised caravan park or traveller site.
- MPs 'set to frustrate mobile phone planning reforms over Huawei concerns' August 14, 2020News that some MPs concerned about the influence of Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei will "frustrate" the government's proposed planning changes around mobile phone infrastructure features in today's newspaper round-up.
- CIL Watch: Five ways the proposed changes to the planning system will affect CIL August 14, 2020Plans to scrap the community infrastructure levy (CIL) and create a new levy on development are among the far-reaching changes to the developer contributions system that were revealed in the new Planning White Paper. Here are five key changes.
- The likely risks and rewards of the proposed zonal plan system August 14, 2020Radical proposed changes to local plans, which would see them zone land into three development categories, is likely to mean more work for under-resourced council planning teams and could limit local authority control, some observers suggest. However, developers should welcome the greater certainty provided by the new system.