Planning Appeals Tracker
Planning Appeal Tracker is a weekly email service designed to deliver the most significant planning appeals straight to your inbox. The appeals are specifically selected and abstracted by experienced planning professionals. Select your preferred subject areas or customise your requirements to make sure you keep ahead of the most important planning appeals.
A subscription to Planning Appeals Tracker gives you:
- The fastest service - appeals included will be at most 11 working days post decision date
- The most comprehensive weekly update
- Key issues highlighted - all decisions include a full abstract.

Latest Appeals
Replacement dwelling volume leads to rejection
18th May, 2012, dcservices.co.ukAn 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.ukThe 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.ukA 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
- Grass infill parking maintains green belt openness
- Café not subject to sequential assessment
- Private members' club allegation imprecise
- Clear glass must be retained at beauty salon
- Personal office and storage use restriction removed
- Enforcement action flawed against permitted industrial uses
- Plot subdivision sufficient for bungalow
- Conservation area demolition allowed
- Inspector not persuaded by security claims in fence enforcement

Choose which of the following three services best meets your needs.
Standard Tracker
Subscribers can choose to be kept up to date in any of 11 categories. Weekly email bulletins summarise appeals made in England, Scotland and Wales. Users have the opportunity to download the decisions online or request them through the customer service department.
See a sample for each Tracker category:
1. Advertisements
2. Affordable housing
3. Agriculture
4. Certificate of Lawful Development
5. Food/supermarket developments
6. Green belt
7. Leisure developments
8. Large housing developments
9. Renewable energy
10. Retail developments
11. Telecommunications

Casework Tracker
Casework Tracker is a email service that delivers the most significant appeals each week across all areas of development (from satellite dishes to new settlements and from retail to renewable energy). The appeals are selected and abstracted by experienced planning professionals, based on their legal interest or where inspectors have arrived at interesting interpretations.
Benefits of Casework Tracker
- Fast - appeals included will be at most 11 working days post decision date
- Comprehensive
- Full appeal downloads included in the subscription at your selected level
- Key issues highlighted - all decisions include a full abstract
- Customised to your requirements at no additional cost. For example, if you are only interested in housing appeals then we can make sure this is all you receive.
Save valuable time and money by allowing our team of experienced planning professionals to select the important planning appeals you need to know about.
How your subscription works
- Each week you receive an email containing full abstracts of the selected appeals
- Click on the DCS number to be taken to COMPASS Online where you can view the full appeal
- Your subscription is inclusive of appeal downloads at your selected level, and more can be added as required.

Customised Tracker
If you need to monitor a specific field or sector not shown in the above weekly services, then contact us to discuss how we can set up a customised service for you.

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