This Week's Top Appeals

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Soil contamination survey thwarts lawfulness claim

Soil contamination survey thwarts lawfulness claim

An inspector refused to issue a LDC confirming that a class A1 store and restaurant in the West Midlands could be built under the terms of a planning permission issued in 2006 because the appellants had failed to discharge a condition requiring the s...

Replacement dwelling volume leads to rejection

18th May, 2012, dcservices.co.uk

An inspector ruled that an increase in the volume of a replacement house in the North Wessex Downs AONB was indicative of the unacceptable scale of the scheme.

 
 

Ancient monument setting undermined by hillside scheme

18th May, 2012, dcservices.co.uk

The erection of four dwellings on a hillside within a Shropshire conservation area and close to a castle, designated as a scheduled ancient monument, was held to be insensitive and inappropriate to the character of the area.

 
 

Sunday opening hours varied given passage of time

18th May, 2012, dcservices.co.uk

A condition preventing a fish and chip shop in Nottinghamshire from opening on Sundays was varied with an inspector concluding that attitudes to opening on such days had changed enormously since the original permission was granted in 1984.

 
 

Housing opportunity site released above indicative capacity threshold

18th May, 2012, dcservices.co.uk

An appeal involving the erection of up to 550 dwellings on a site to the south-west of Glasgow was allowed to proceed after a reporter satisfied himself that it generally accorded with the provisions of a development plan.

 
 

Grass infill parking maintains green belt openness

18th May, 2012, dcservices.co.uk

A school in the Oxford green belt secured planning permission for the construction of 25 car parking spaces on the basis that it would not adversely impact upon the openness of the area.

 
 

Café not subject to sequential assessment

18th May, 2012, dcservices.co.uk

The change of use of an art gallery to a café on Tyneside was secured with an inspector also ruling that he did not believe it was necessary for the appellant to undertake a sequential assessment, provided the nature of the use was limited. In so con...

 
 
 
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