New Permitted Development Order – now published, April 2015
Eric Pickles has now published a new Town & Country Planning Act covering all permitted development with the conditions pertaining to each development whether extra building or a change of sue. It’s all there in a long document, and...
read moreNew Permitted Development Order – come into effect April 2015
A new General Permitted Development Order (GPDO) comes into effect next week, 15 April 2015. The UCO (Use Classes Order, 1987) provides classes of land usage, and normally, change of use between these classes is not permitted. But the GPDO...
read moreHighfield House Hotel – March 2015
The Highfield Residents Association and many local residents have welcomed the news that plans to convert the Highfield House Hotel into student accommodation have been withdrawn. The hotel will now be refurbished.
read moreB&Q, Portswood Road – March 2015
Following the landowners’ refusal to renew B&Q’s Portswood Road lease, the landowners have now submitted a planning application to the Council for 528 student units. Report of HMO Scrutiny Panel
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