In-fill housing developments approved
Martin Goodall has conducted several successful appeals recently against the refusal of proposals for single houses or two-house developments on urban sites in Bristol and elsewhere (including South Wales). He successfully argued that government policy now favours such developments in order to meet the government’s aim of concentrating development on previously-developed urban land, which includes under-used land within the curtilage of existing houses, thereby relieving the pressure for development of ‘green-field’ sites elsewhere.
Martin says, “Planning permission for this type of development is certainly not automatic. Careful presentation of the case is essential, especially where objections are raised on highway or traffic grounds, as they have been in two of the cases I have dealt with recently. However, I hope that Bristol City Council and other local authorities will take a more positive attitude to this type of development in the future.”
