Speculative Planning Warning After Brackley Housing Appeal

'Nuisance' holiday let claims as York house plans refused

Permission for a York house to be used as a holiday let has been refused amid claims other nearby tourist accommodation is a nuisance.

Plans back on table to convert Victorian function hall into residential house

PROPOSALS for The Manna House, a Victorian function hall in Penketh, to be converted into a residential house are back on the table.

Rejected plans for shared house in Bridgend overturned after appeal

It will now see a two-bedroom residential dwelling turned into a four-bedroom HMO

Fast-tracking or ploughing through? Renewable energy shaping up as defining issue for Victorian election

Most landholders in regional Victoria support renewable energy – if they get a say. But planning approvals are riding roughshod over community concernsSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterThe wind never really stops on Peter Watts’ hill. On his grazing property, 90km north-west of Bendigo, it sweeps in across the plains and picks up strength as it climbs. “I can go up there any time of the day,” Watts says. “It might be completely still…

Former Caernarfon Lloyds bank building in plan to become units and flats

New use for former bank building proposed in plan submitted to Cyngor Gwynedd

How an FCC squabble over paperwork is jeopardizing a rural expansion of wireless services

The Federal Communications Commission is blocking an investment firm's access to valuable wireless spectrum and threatening to take away its licenses because of a paperwork filing error – and the firm’s executives warn that customers in rural America will pay the price, On The Money has learned.