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Convenience store refused over flood risk
A proposal to build a convenience store in a Cumbrian pub car park and to reorganise the pub car park and beer garden was refused due to it failing the flood risk sequential test.
Two houses and the conversion of a smithy to a workshop would harm heritage assets
A proposal to construct two houses and convert a former smithy to a standalone studio workshop was found to harm the open character of a Nottinghamshire village conservation area and the setting of a neighbouring listed building.
Defiant council challenges housing minister’s order to stop it withdrawing plan
A Surrey council has issued a defiant response to a direction from the housing minister preventing it withdrawing its emerging local plan from examination, blaming “chaos and mixed messaging” from the government, including delays to the publication of the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
Seven flat mansard roof extension dismissed over heritage asset harm
A proposal for a rooftop extension to a Non-Designated Heritage Asset (NDHA) block of flats to provide seven flats was refused permission due to the harm to the host building and surrounding conservation area.
SoS dismisses redevelopment for new office block but allows renovations of attached listed buildings
The Secretary of State agreed with their inspector and refused permission for two alternate schemes to redevelop a 1980’s office block in central London and replace it with an office block of either 26 or 37-storeys, due to the harm to its world heritage site (WHS) setting. However, permission was granted to renovate an attached listed terrace building that formed the frontage of the site and convert it to flats and offices.
Stockport - new published position
Stockport Borough Council has published a new housing land supply position.
Judge quashes revised solar farm permission that increased size of consented substation
The High Court has quashed a council's decision to allow changes to a planning consent for a solar farm and electricity substation, after a judge ruled that the amendments were incompatible with the original conditions.
Use of house for care held to constitute residential institution
A home proposed to be occupied by four adults receiving care would constitute a residential institution rather than a single dwellinghouse, an inspector has held.
Lack of plan-led solution leads to permanent traveller site consent
The absence of a credible plan-led solution has led an inspector to grant permanent consent for a traveller site in the Kent green belt.
Fire station conversion scuppered by lack of affordable homes contribution
The lack of affordable housing contribution has scuppered a proposed conversion of part of a former London fire station to a one-bedroom home.
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Government aiming to pass levelling up bill in next six weeks, as it tells councils to carry on as normal with nutrient mitigation
The government has told local authorities to continue to secure mitigation for sites affected by ‘nutrient neutrality’ requirements after its bid to remove the rules was voted down by the House of Lords and said it hoped the levelling up bill would secure Royal Assent before the King’s speech in early November.
PM vows to introduce national spatial plan and fast-tracked consents for energy infrastructure
The prime minister has vowed to introduce a national spatial plan for energy infrastructure and a fast-track consenting route for transmission projects as part of “comprehensive new reforms” to the sector.
Wales offshore windfarm approved
Development consent has been granted by the secretary of state for a 50-turbine windfarm off the coast of north Wales with capacity to meet approximately six per cent of the country’s electricity consumption.
'Hospital's A&E department had been operating for three years without planning permission'
A report that a hospital had been treating walk-in patients at its new accident and emergency department for three years despite the building lacking planning permission leads our round-up of news in other media.
Planning is being abandoned by a government desperate to cling to power, by Graeme Bell
Opposition to measures intended to slow climate change is no reason to ditch vital policies, says our columnist
How Gove’s new ‘super squad’ of expert planners is likely to work
The housing secretary has announced the formation of a new "super squad" of planning experts to help deliver large-scale developments. Observers believe the new team is likely to focus on land assembly and compulsory purchase and describe the initial funding for the programme to be “quite substantial”.
Opinion: We need a new template for how we develop our cities
An approach that is both human-centric and focuses on sustainability is central to shaping city success, writes Federica Buricco.
Stone an inappropriate material for Dutch barn conversion
An inspector refused to sanction alterations to the external appearance of a Dutch barn in Gloucestershire to facilitate its approved change of use to a restaurant/café/shop after finding the use of stone at odds with the local agricultural vernacular.
Self-build house fails tilted balance
A self-build house on a parcel of land in a Herefordshire hamlet has been denied outline consent despite the inspector having regard to an appeal decision in which the tilted balance was held to apply in the absence of relevant development plan policy on self-build and custom build housing.
Water resources national policy statement comes into force
The government’s long-delayed national policy statement for water resources infrastructure projects has come into force, setting out key planning considerations and sustainability requirements for major project applications.
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