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DC Casebook: Mixed Use Development - Design standard rejected at gateway site

28 November 2008

Despite receiving a favourable recommendation from an inspector, the developers behind a major mixed-use scheme in Surrey have failed to persuade the secretary of state that its design quality is sufficient.

DC Casebook: Mixed Use Development - Open space scheme falls down on details

28 November 2008

An inspector has dismissed an appeal for housing, a community hall and open space in Middlesex following clarification of a number of points made in writing through the hearing process.

DC Casebook: Mixed Use Development - Costs awarded over conservation consent

28 November 2008

An east London council's claim that conservation area consent is required to demolish buildings in parallel with determining a planning application has been overruled by an inspector who found that such an approach is desirable but not essential.

DC Casebook: In depth - Office plan allowed outside town centre on business need grounds

28 November 2008

An office scheme proposed on an out-of-centre site in west London has been allowed because of the lack of available alternative sites and the need to make effective use of urban land.

DC Casebook: Commercial and industrial - Council overruled on catering use bid

28 November 2008

An inspector has allowed the change of use of the ground floor of a former brewery on a Bristol quayside to offices after finding that an extant planning permission for food and drink use is unlikely to be implemented.

DC Casebook: Food and drink uses - Canopy allowed on fallback position

28 November 2008

An enforcement notice directed against a canopy over an outdoor drinking area at a bar in Leicester has been quashed, an inspector giving significant weight to the argument that the structure would benefit from deemed consent with the addition of an advertisement.

DC Casebook: Housing new build - Basement space avoids amenity claim

28 November 2008

An enforcement notice against the excavation of rear gardens to create basements at three south London buildings has been quashed after an inspector held that satisfactory living conditions would be provided and the works would not unacceptably limit amenity space.

DC Casebook: Mixed use development - Fallback justifies live-work apartments

28 November 2008

A north London authority has been criticised for giving insufficient weight to a planning permission that justified approving a mixed commercial and residential scheme in a defined employment area.

Killian-Pretty's local revisions cannot rule out overhaul need

By Huw Morris

28 November 2008

The year's end must be approaching, because the government has unveiled yet another series of proposals to speed up the planning system.

United city heritage approach supported

28 November 2008

Talks are proposed between local authority planners, conservation groups and developers to chart a way forward for Edinburgh's world heritage site.