Winchester City Council: Pure Town Planning has just secured planning permission for the use of the roof space above this double garage at a detached house in Winchester as a self contained studio apartment. In a case far more tortuous than one would expect for such a proposal, we stuck at it […]
Winchester adopts Core Strategy
Winchester, Hampshire: The City Council has now adopted its Core Strategy or Local Plan Part 1 – Joint Core Strategy to give it its full name. Nothing much more to say really. We wait to see how some of the policies translate into practise, especially affordable housing. In the meantime if you have any queries […]
Inspector backs Winchester’s new Local Plan
Winchester City Council has now received the final report from the Inspector on the Examination into the the Winchester District Local Plan Part 1 (aka the Core Strategy). The Inspector has ruled the plan to be sound subject to a number of minor amendments. There is much to go through but […]
Demolition and replacement of barn in curtilage of Listed Building in South Downs National Park
South Downs National Park (Winchester City Council): Pure Town Planning were instructed to advise on a sensitive enforcement issue involving the demolition of an old barn within the curtilage of a listed building. The owners hadn’t realised that as a curtilage building which was existing on the site before lst July […]
Approved: relocation of fence and new pedestrian access in Winchester conservation area
Winchester City Council: Some things we do are really quite minor but can still make a real difference to our clients. Pure Town Planning secured consent to move a boundary fence within the grounds of this subdivided Victorian house by just a few feet. The result was a larger more […]
Autumn Examination for Winchester
The examination of Winchester District Local Plan Part 1 – Joint Core Strategy will soon be underway. The Planning Inspector appointed to hold the examination is Nigel Payne BSc(Hons) DipTP MRTPI MCMI will hold a pre-hearing meeting on 12 September. The hearings themselves are scheduled to take place over eight […]
Winchester Local Plan submitted for examination
Winchester City Council has submitted its Local Plan Part 1 – Joint Core Strategy to the Secretary of State. The document will be subject to a Public Examination by Planning Inspector anticipated to be in September or October of this year. Those who have already made representations on the document […]
LDF update – Winchester “Local Plan” out for consultation
Winchester City Council has just published its “Pre-Submission” stage Core Strategy for a period of consultation from 25 January 2012 until 5pm on the 12 March 2012. The Core Strategy will guide development within the District (including the area within the South Downs National Park) for the next twenty years. In […]