Test Valley Borough Council: Pure Town Planning has just secured planning consent for two semi-detached retirement cottages for a developer client on a brownfield site in Romsey. The main issue in this case was the use of a shared access with an adjoining development site and the way the vehicle turning […]
Approved: camping and caravan site near Romsey
Test Valley Borough Council: Pure Town Planning have recently secured a tricky planning consent for a new camp site near Romsey. The proposal, when submitted by a different planning agent, had been turned down last year by Test Valley Borough Council for a variety of technical reasons. The owner approached Pure […]
Approved: certificate of lawfulness to turn paddock into garden in Test Valley
Test Valley Borough Council: Pure Town Planning recently successfully obtained a certificate of lawfulness for clients in the countryside near Andover to confirm that the integration of their former paddock into the garden was lawful and they can carry on using the whole as a larger garden. How do you […]
Test Valley consults on Revised Local Plan at last
Test Valley, Hampshire: It’s been a quiet start to the year in terms of planning policy consultations. But finally Test Valley Borough Council has published its Revised Local Plan for consultation (at the last consultation just over a year ago this was two documents the Core Strategy DPD and the Designations DPD). The […]
More delay! Test Valley policies deferred
Test Valley Borough Council have deferred two meetings to discuss its Revised Local Plan this month. We were expecting the Council to sign off a draft version for consultation later in the month but the planners have decided to hold off until they are clear about the timetable for revocation of the […]
What is going on at Test Valley?
Good question and one which is of particular interest to a number of our clients. It’s all gone quiet since January when we reported Test Valley Borough Council were consulting on two Development Plan Documents. We were expecting a second consultation round in the summer which has not yet appeared. […]
LDF update – Test Valley consultations
Test Valley Borough Council is currently consulting on two draft Development Plan Documents: a Core Strategy and Development Management DPD and a Designations DPD which sets out plans for the various Core Strategy designations including all settlement boundaries. The Core Strategy sets out the proposed locations for development for the […]