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Development Control Casebook: Appeal cases - Commercial and industrial - Data centre approved in airport safety zone

28 May 2004

The deputy prime minister has granted planning permission for a data centre to be occupied by BT in the Berkshire green belt near Heathrow Airport following a call-in inquiry, agreeing with his inspector that very special circumstances existed to justify the development.

Development Control Casebook: Appeal cases - Agricultural development - Higher discount held justified for farm dwelling

28 May 2004

An inspector has upheld an enforcement notice and refused to grant planning permission for the removal of an agricultural occupancy condition imposed on a bungalow in Wiltshire, concluding that the appellant's marketing exercise was insufficient to assess likely demand.

Development Control Casebook: Appeal cases - Agricultural development - Alternative siting ordered after prior notification

28 May 2004

The prior approval of two replacement farm buildings on an 8ha holding in an Essex special landscape area has been rejected because they would have a harmful effect on the character and appearance of the area and their impact could be improved by alternative siting.

Development Control Casebook: Central London site cleared for use as television studio

28 May 2004

Music television company MTV has secured planning permission for the change of use of premises in central London's Leicester Square after an inspector ruled that the use would not attract large crowds screaming for their favourite pop stars visiting the facility.

Landmark event for reform

28 May 2004

Next month's new-look Planning Convention is not to be missed as an opportunity to explore the agenda for delivery, reports Bryan Johnston.

Criteria to improve building standards

28 May 2004

Environmentally greener buildings are essential and achievable, according to the authors of the latest government inquiry. Huw Morris investigates.

Interview: Olympic co-ordinator

28 May 2004

After 20 years in planning Janet Thomas is leading the team processing London's Olympic planning application. She tells Catherine Early about her big challenge.

Editorial: Consultation reveals low standing of PPS1

28 May 2004

Now that responses to the government's first bite at PPS1 are cascading in, what has everybody made of it? Well, not that much. A certain level of complacency pervades this February's draft, which is what happens when ministers believe their own publicity that the statement offers the last word on planning. Nobody outside Whitehall agrees, and the proof of the pudding comes by asking any planning consultant or lawyer how confident they are about future fees. Bullish is the only description.

Opinion: Fyson on ... the crucial need to encourage green building

28 May 2004

Government approval of the proposal to devise a code for sustainable building is further evidence that the regime is determined to ensure that development becomes more sustainable. A task group set up jointly by deputy prime minister John Prescott along with the secretaries of state from DEFRA and the DTI gives the idea the necessary clout in Whitehall and could have an early impact on the quality and sustainability of buildings.

Bell on ... how immigrants have enriched their host nation

28 May 2004

Oksana is excited. Recently arrived from Riga, she is a live-in care worker for my old friend Tom. In the first flush of wonderment at experiencing the material society, she has great plans for the next two years, before returning home to her family with some hard currency. The tabloids have painted a picture of benefit scroungers. The reality is different. As ever, immigrants are enriching our society, economy, arts and sciences.