Planning
The Neighbourhood Planning Act – Power to the Pub Campaigners?
The Neighbourhood Planning Act received Royal Assent on the 27 April 2017. We understand this will be brought into effect by the late summer 2017. It was made clear through Pubs Minister Andrew Percy that the Government had “hoped to c...
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House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report published
At midnight last night, the House of Lords Committee report was published. It can be found here. Running to some 180 pages in all, the contents will take some digesting but here is the summary of the Report’s conclusions and recommend...
Planning - Wandsworth Council 'to remove permitted development rights' from its pubs.
With thanks to Stephen Brooker (Walsingham Planning) who reports that the London Borough of Wandsworth is seeking to introduce an Article 4 direction to almost wholly remove permitted development rights for pubs in the Borough. Using the ju...
Planning - Impact of possible noise nuisance claims on viability of a business – further update
We have been monitoring the progress of the legal case currently being pursued by Pauline Foster, the owner of an East London Tavern (the George Tavern) against the decision to grant Planning permission for a residential development in a neighbour...
Planning - Impact of possible noise nuisance claims on viability of a business - update
We have previously reported on the long running Forster case. This concerns the owner of an East London tavern who recently lost a High Court challenge against a planning inspector's approval for a block of flats neighbouring her premises whi...
Planning - Impact of possible noise nuisance claims on viability of a business
The owner of an East London tavern recently lost a High Court challenge against a planning inspector's approval for a block of flats neighbouring her premises which it was claimed might put her out of business. She owned a tavern which was used f...
Planning: change of use - Parliamentary briefing
The planning use class system (along with permitted development rights) allows the change of use of buildings without the need for planning permission. The Coalition Government introduced a range of new change of use permitted development rights ...