Borough of Poole: Pure Town Planning are celebrating another successful outcome with an appeal allowed on a site at Upton near Poole, Dorset. The application site was the end of a garden which had road frontage to the street behind. Our developer client proposed to remove the six foot rear timber fence and erect […]
Approved: contemporary replacement dwelling in St. Mellons, Cardiff
Cardiff Council: Another shining example of our recent successes outside the local area is the recently secured planning permission for a substantial replacement dwelling in St. Mellons, just outside Cardiff City Centre. The site currently houses a 1960s three-bedroom detached bungalow. The cramped internal layout and on-going maintenance of the ageing […]
Legal challenge to new 10-unit affordable housing threshold policy
England: So it seems West Berkshire and Reading Borough Councils have taken the plunge and applied to the High Court for a Judicial Review of the Government’s new 10-unit affordable housing threshold policy introduced at the end of November (see our report on that policy here). We don’t have details of […]
Won on appeal: planning permission for three detached family houses in Poole
Borough of Poole: Pure Town Planning were pleased to record our first appeal win of 2015 last week with planning permission granted for the demolition of one detached dwelling and the erection of three detached family houses in Poole, Dorset. The appeal site adjoined a street corner site where Pure Town Planning had […]
Approved: seven houses on former Oak and Yaffle pub site in New Milton, Hampshire
New Forest District Council: Just before Christmas, Pure Town Planning secured planning permission for seven houses on a former pub site in New Milton, Hampshire. This was a revised application following a previously refused scheme on the site for eight houses handled by another planning consultancy. That application was refused principally due to the […]
Further permitted development changes may not happen before the General Election
England: Over the Christmas period the Department for Communities and Local Government published its Ninth Statement of New Regulation: January to June 2015 setting out the measures it anticipates bringing forward in that period (in practice between now and the General Election in May). Absent from that list are additional changes to […]
Approved: Certificate of Lawful Development for a countryside dwelling near Blandford Forum
North Dorset District Council: Pure Town Planning are pleased to have assisted a family obtaining a certificate of lawful development to confirm the lawfulness of a long established dwelling in the countryside near Blandford Forum in Dorset. Last year Pure Town Planning was approached to assist a family regarding a […]
Approved: erection of a replacement luxury hotel and conference facility at Salterns Marina, Poole
Borough of Poole: Pure Town Planning is pleased to announce that planning permission has recently been secured for the demolition of the existing Salterns Hotel on Poole Harbour at Lilliput and the erection of a replacement five-storey hotel with a ground floor marina bar/café and a top floor panoramic restaurant; 22 […]
Approved: Two new large (c5000sqft) family dwellings in Evening Hill near Lilliput, Poole
Borough of Poole: Pure Town Planning have recently obtained planning permission for the demolition of an existing house and the erection of two large, detached family dwellings in the desirable area of Evening Hill near Lilliput in Poole. We teamed up with local architects; Anders Roberts who designed these two large […]
Approved: Change of Use A1 (Retail Use) to Tattoo Studio (Sui Generis)
Bournemouth Borough Council: Pure Town Planning has recently secured retrospective planning permission for a change of use from an A1 retail use to a tattoo studio in Moordown, Bournemouth. An existing hair dressers (A1 Use) was converted into two separate planning units by the applicant, with the existing hair dressers […]