Southampton City Council: Pure Town Planning are pleased to announce that Dan Wilden has just secured outline planning consent for the erection of a block of fourteen 2-bedroom apartments at a site in Shirley, Southampton. The scheme was designed by local architects ARC Architecture and is on a prominent corner […]
Southampton City Council: Darryl Howells has secured a Certificate of Lawfulness authorising the use of first floor storage as offices (Use Class B1a) in Southampton city centre. The client approached Pure Town Planning to discuss a planning strategy for the redevelopment of his city centre location site to provide residential accommodation. […]
Southampton City Council: Darryl Howells has secured retrospective planning permission for the erection of an enclosed stairwell to facilitate conversion of first and second floors into 2 flats (1x 2-bed, 1x 1-bed) with associated cycle/refuse storage for a site in Bedford Place in Southampton. The applicant first instructed Primmer Olds […]
Southampton City Council: Pure Town Planning has won another appeal this time in Southampton. The appeal site was an old pub located in a residential area of the city. The proposal was for the demolition of the pub building and the erection of a scheme of five houses. The various […]
Southampton City Council: Pure Town Planning has just secured consent for another office to residential permitted development scheme in central Southampton for six flats. An earlier prior approval application for the first and second floors of the three storey office building was approved by Southampton City Council earlier in the year (see […]
Southampton City Council: Pure Town Planning has just secured consent for another office to residential permitted development scheme, this time in central Southampton for fourteen flats. An earlier prior approval application for the three storey office building was originally turned down when the Southampton City Council planning officer, upon visiting the […]
Southampton City Council: Just a quick update following our recent post on the hearing sessions of the joint Examination into the City Centre Action Plan (CCAP) and Core Strategy Partial Review. The hearing sessions have closed and the Inspector Christine Downes has recommended a number of modifications which Southampton City Council have been […]
Southampton City Council: This week sees the hearing sessions of the joint Examination into the City Centre Action Plan (CCAP) and Core Strategy Partial Review. Southampton’s City Centre Action Plan, which seems to have been a very long time in the making, aims to guide development in the south’s largest city centre. […]
England: Well it must be that time of year again. The Government have published a new amendment to the General Permitted Development Order introducing a number of new permitted development rights for change of use coming into effect 06 April 2014 including: 1) Use Class A1 and A2 to residential […]
Bournemouth and Poole, Dorset: I have been surprised by the lack of take up of the new permitted development right to change the use of B1 offices into C3 residential particularly in Bournemouth and Poole. Over in Southampton the applications for prior approval have been rolling in including plans to convert […]
