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TP Editorial Team
Jul 2, 20202 min read
NEW PD Rights for 2-storey Upward Extensions on Apartments
A new permitted development (PD) right will allow two-storey upward extensions on purpose-built detached blocks of apartments from 1st...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 2, 20203 min read
‘Build, Build, Build’ says Boris
Boris Johnson has announced the ‘most radical’ reforms of the planning system since the end of the Second World War, pledging to ‘build a...
TP Editorial Team
Jun 23, 20201 min read
Could Your Land be Part of a 50 Hectare Country Park?
Worcester City, Malvern Hills District and Wychavon District Councils are currently making a joint ‘call for sites’ which might be...
TP Editorial Team
May 29, 20206 min read
My Predictions for Planning in the Post COVID-19 World
Clearly COVID-19 is having an unprecedented and far reaching effect on everyone’s lives – their health (both mental and physical), home,...
Amanda Stobbs
May 14, 20201 min read
First Phase in HTM Redevelopment Project Approved
This is the second planning permission we have recently achieved for this highway management company; the first was the expansion of...
Helen Winkler
May 13, 20203 min read
Even More Changes in Planning - Including CIL Deferments
On 12th May 2020, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick announced the introduction of additional new guidance, regulations and measures to...
Gail Collins
May 1, 20202 min read
Good News for the NHS!
We are delighted to have obtained planning permission for the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for the use of the upper floors...
Amanda Stobbs
Apr 23, 20201 min read
Agricultural Conversion - Up for the Challenge!
Navigating the intricacies of the permitted development rights to convert an agricultural barn to residential dwellings can be tricky. ...
Helen Winkler
Apr 15, 20202 min read
Emergency PD rights introduced in response to CV
New legislation, which came into effect on 9th April 2020, permits emergency development by, or on behalf of, local authorities or health...
Gareth Jones
Apr 8, 20202 min read
5 new houses in Shropshire
We are celebrating another planning success following the approval of a scheme for 5 new houses in Wellington, Shropshire. The site is an...
Glenda Parkes
Apr 2, 20201 min read
More apartments granted in Solihull office building
© Wake Architects We have been working with clients for the past three years on the progression of residential proposals for Sapphire...
Gail Collins
Apr 1, 20201 min read
1980s barn gains residential consent
This 1980s agricultural barn in Lapworth had not been used for a number of years. The adjacent Grade II listed farm buildings had been...
Helen Winkler
Apr 1, 20202 min read
More changes afoot for the Planning system!
In a recent Commons' statement and accompanying document, ‘Planning for the Future’, the Government is proposing a number of changes to...
Gail Collins
Mar 26, 20202 min read
Reminder: Planning Needed for Small HMOs in Birmingham from June 2020
Further to our earlier articles on this topic, in light of the potential implications of the current pandemic, we have checked again with...
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