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
Green waste restriction maintained at farm
03rd February, 2012, dcservices.co.ukVarious conditions which had been imposed on a range of planning permissions authorising the composting of waste at a Cheshire farm were retained because of the potentially adverse impact on local residents due to noise and disturbance.
Unrestricted retail use harmful to town centre
03rd February, 2012, dcservices.co.ukAn inspector decided that the change of use of a car showroom to non-food retailing in Surrey was unsupportable given the appellant's unwillingness to accept a condition restricting the range of goods which could be sold.
Film studios community ruled out as unsustainable
03rd February, 2012, dcservices.co.ukIn a call-in application the secretary of state refused to grant outline planning permission for a living and working community for the creative industries adjacent to Pinewood studios in the Buckinghamshire green belt, finding that the site was in a...
- Moral considerations not material to planning decision
- Demolition of listed gasholder refused
- Listed church denied permission for PV panels
- Yurt design and use harms character and amenity
- Previously developed land definition examined
- House from flats not a change of use
- Residents parking permit request rejected
- Unauthorised walls not part of permitted scheme
- Flat imbalance claim rejected
- Former colliery suitable for housing development

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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