Planning (UK) articles from February 2002

Planning (UK) archives from February 2002

Reading team first to qualify for quiz final.(Reading University's Rowley Powleys )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Reading University's Rowley Powleys struck lucky in their second attempt to qualify for the national final of the Planning Student Quiz, sponsored by planning consultancy RPS, winning the first heat in this year's competition on Monday night....

Study reveals big brownfield boost.(fewer manufacturing jobs results in more residential land)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... The decline of manufacturing industry in the UK will offer massive opportunities for new brownfield housing sites, according to a report published this week. The study, by consultants GVA Grimley and economic analysts Business Strategies,...

Wales gets its own planning green paper.(National Assembly for Wales publishes environment plan)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The National Assembly for Wales published its own planning green paper this week aiming to create a system "fit for the future". The document follows the main themes of the English version, including shorter development plans, action...

Renewal project wins Silver Jubilee Cup.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A long-running initiative to revive a run-down former mining area in north-west Leicestershire has scooped the top prize in the latest RTPI awards for planning achievement. The Silver Jubilee Cup for 2001 was presented this week to the...

Research points to landfill health issue. (News).(chromosomal research)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... People living near hazardous waste landfill sites are more likely to have chromosomal anomalies such as Down's syndrome, according to research published last week. The results, published in medical journal The Lancet, showed that people...

Farming unsustainable in England, says report. (News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Farmers need stronger business and planning advice to overcome the crisis in the rural economy, a government-sponsored report has concluded. The report of the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food, published this week, calls...

Wales opera house wins more funding. (News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Wales will finally get its own opera house and arts centre after the National Assembly backed a 37 [pounds sterling] million funding package for the Millennium Centre last week. Members approved the funds after the Wales Millennium Centre...

Morley to look at action plan. (News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The UK's first action plan for an integrated approach to flood management will be presented to DEFRA minister Elliott Morley this week by a Somerset-based partnership. The Parrett catchment water management strategy action plan is based on...

RTPI criticises ten-year plan. (News).(Royal Town Planning Institute)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The RTPI has slammed the government for losing its "sense of purpose" over the ten-year transport plan. In its submission to the Commons transport select committee's investigation into the plan, the RTPI says that the government has "gone...

Order set to relax business controls. (News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Proposals to liberalise planning controls on small business premises in town centres have been mooted in a government consultation paper published last week. The paper on the Use Classes Order (UCO) outlines options for reforming the...

House targets set for East Midlands. (News).
February 1, 2002... The brownfield housing target for the East Midlands has been placed at 60 per cent by the government. The final version of regional planning guidance for the East Midlands, published last week, has confirmed the 60 per cent target which...

County chiefs suspend two head planners. (News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Northamptonshire County Council has suspended two of its most senior planning officers on full pay and has launched an internal inquiry, Planning has learned. Sources have indicated that county planning officer Steve Heaver, and head of...

Nearly 50 per cent of people living in England outside London identify most with their region, according to a recent MORI poll.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Nearly 50 per cent of people living in England outside London identify most with their region, according to a recent MORI poll. Researchers asked respondents to choose whether they identified most with their community, their region, various...

A controversial plan to extend quarrying on the edge of Stanton Moor in the Peak District was given the go-ahead this week.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A controversial plan to extend quarrying on the edge of Stanton Moor in the Peak District was given the go-ahead this week. The Peak District National Park Authority allowed quarry firm Blockstone a two-field extension at New Pilhough quarry in...

Funding for national parks will increase by 12.8 per cent in the next financial year, the government has announced.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Funding for national parks will increase by 12.8 per cent in the next financial year, the government has announced. The money will be used to tackle the impact of the foot-and-mouth crisis and open up land for public access under the...

The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW) this week urged trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt to hold a public inquiry into the proposed Cefn Croes wind power station in Ceredigion. Energy secretary Brian Wilson has already...

The RTPI has called for regulation of the charges made by local planning authorities for copying planning material.(Royal Town Planning Institute)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The RTPI has called for regulation of the charges made by local planning authorities for copying planning material. In a letter to the House of Commons urban affairs sub-committee, the institute says that the forthcoming review of the Ordnance...

Wimbledon Football Club's proposed move to a new stadium in Milton Keynes.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Wimbledon Football Club's proposed move to a new stadium in Milton Keynes has been left unresolved by a three-person arbitration panel. The panel ruled this week that the Football League should re-examine the club's proposal because it had not...

Wessex Water's new operations centre in Bath.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Wessex Water's new operations centre in Bath has been named as one of the winners of the 2001 business commitment to the environment (BCE) awards. The 10,000[m.sup.2] office was completed in July 2000 on a brownfield site and houses 580 staff....

Planning authorities need to consider whether their policies and practices are hampering the delivery of needs-based housing for older people.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Planning authorities need to consider whether their policies and practices are hampering the delivery of needs-based housing for older people, a report published this week argues. Housing policy has tended to focus only on low-income groups,...

Irish greens salvage rare birds' habitat. (News).(Bird Watch Ireland, Friends of the Irish Environment challenge Bluelight Properies' proposed development)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... An endangered bird, the corncrake, has won an unlikely planning victory in the Irish Republic, halting a development that threatened one of its few remaining habitats on the banks of the Shannon. A development of 57 townhouses and 37 flats...

Grant casts doubt over MPs' vote on big plans. (News).(opinions on parliamentary involvement in major projects)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Parliamentary committees should decide on major projects, a leading academic argued at a Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) conference on the planning green paper last week. Professor Malcolm Grant, pro vice-chancellor of the...

Spotlight to fall on role of new towns. (News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A parliamentary inquiry is to investigate the role of new towns, it has been announced. The House of Commons urban affairs sub-committee unveiled the move last week, stating that the inquiry will look into the problems associated with new...

Design chiefs welcome new skyscraper. (News).(Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment praises building designs)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The latest proposals for a skyscraper at London Bridge have been praised by the design watchdog the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). CABE experts looked at the developing scheme, London Bridge Tower, for the...

Communities pose `threat' to businesses. (News).(Barney Stringer of Confederation of British Industry speaks on economic effects of green paper measures)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Green paper measures to encourage community involvement and reform planning gain could harm economic regeneration, a business leader claimed last week. Barney Stringer, head of group infrastructure at the Confederation of British Industry,...

Camden raises design profile. (Regeneration News).(London Borough of Camden, England)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The London Borough of Camden has announced a design initiative to create a series of landmark buildings in the area and help regenerate the banks of the Regent's Canal. The council, in partnership with the Commission for Architecture and...

Plans seek boost for city's renewal. (Regeneration News).(Birmingham, England)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Plans for a 300 [pounds sterling] million mixed-use scheme to help regenerate the Masshouse area of Birmingham were submitted last week to Birmingham City Council. Backers of the scheme hope that it will act as a catalyst for the city...

Anti-poverty moves praised. (Regeneration News).(Lancashire County, England)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Lancashire County Council's pilot social inclusion strategy has been praised in a report by independent consultants. The council appointed Roger Tym and Partners, with Business Environments Group and Philip Mervyn Associates, to evaluate...

Regional development agency Yorkshire Forward.(Bradford city centre masterplan put on hold)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Regional development agency Yorkshire Forward has ordered a halt to the Bradford city centre masterplan until news of the city's bid for an urban regeneration company (URC) is announced. Consultants URBED have been told that there is little...

Regeneration consultants Vision 21.(Vision 21, Aven Center partnership, Preston local community form community observatory)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Regeneration consultants Vision 21 have joined forces with the Aven Central single regeneration budget partnership and the local community in Preston to develop a community observatory. The observatory will comprise a group of local people who...

Village and community halls need a cash injection of 50 [pounds sterling] million a year to sustain rural regeneration, according to a report from the charity Action with Communities in Rural England.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Village and community halls need a cash injection of 50 [pounds sterling] million a year to sustain rural regeneration, according to a report from the charity Action with Communities in Rural England. The report claims that communities are...

A proposal to redevelop listed buildings in Blackburn town centre has been approved.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A proposal to redevelop listed buildings in Blackburn town centre has been approved. The proposal, by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council in partnership with Blackburn Cathedral, will restore and regenerate the grade II listed Waterloo...

David McLean Developments and the economic development arm of community organisation Eldonians have formed a joint venture to identify and implement regeneration opportunities.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... David McLean Developments and the economic development arm of community organisation Eldonians have formed a joint venture to identify and implement regeneration opportunities. The partnership will identify potential mixed-use, industrial,...

Consultants WS Atkins.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Consultants WS Atkins have completed a study into levels of deprivation in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. The results of the study will be used by the council to draw up its strategy for the government's neighbourhood renewal...

Planning permission has been granted for a 60-house scheme on the former Ackworth Colliery site near Pontefract in West Yorkshire.(Langtree Group )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Planning permission has been granted for a 60-house scheme on the former Ackworth Colliery site near Pontefract in West Yorkshire. Owners Langtree Group were granted permission after a public inquiry in which the planning inspector identified...

The government should give support to livestock auction markets to ensure that they remain a vital asset to rural communities.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The government should give support to livestock auction markets to ensure that they remain a vital asset to rural communities, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is saying. In a letter to DEFRA minister Elliot Morley, the RICS...

Newcastle City Council.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Newcastle City Council held consultations this week with local businesses on the latest developments in the regeneration of the city's west end. Plans for a new district centre on site options--one on land west of Condercum Road, Benwell and...

Five major Welsh schemes win funding. (Transport News).(transportation programs improve access to employment sites)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Five major transport schemes aiming to provide easier access to employment sites are to receive funding from the Welsh assembly, environment minister Sue Essex announced last week. The five projects -- in Port Talbot, Bargoed, Pembroke, the...

Study to weigh up new and old transport plans. (Transport News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The effectiveness of local transport plans (LTPs) is to be assessed for the first time as part of a study to be carried out by consultants WS Atkins. The six-month study, commissioned by the DTLR, will look at the effectiveness of the...

Ministerial praise for local strategies. (Transport News).(Lewis Macdonald praises Scotland's local transport strategies)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Deputy transport minister Lewis Macdonald has praised the high standard of Scotland's local transport strategies and urged local authorities to follow them through. The minister's comments follow the publication of two Scottish Executive...

Mayor urged to back new tram system. (Transport News).(Stockwell Partnership lobbies Ken Livingstone for London, England tramway)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... London mayor Ken Livingstone has been urged to back plans to build a tram system linking north and south London. The Stockwell Partnership regeneration agency, which has been working on the scheme for the past six years, has written to the...

Group blames traffic rise on development. (Transport News).(Transform Scotland)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Developers are failing to tackle traffic increases caused by new developments, according to a response to the Scottish Executive's central Scotland transport corridor study. The study aims to identify solutions to problems on the region's...

`Difficult' choices stall planning bill. (Scottish News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A bill to streamline Scotland's planning system will not be ready for at least 18 months, almost three years after the Scottish Executive acknowledged the need for fundamental change. Social justice minister lain Gray admits there is "no...

Broad welcome for revised wind farm. (Scottish News).(Scottish Power PLC)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Scottish Power has revised its plans for Europe's largest wind farm following an extensive consultation process. The firm has agreed to increase the distance between the turbines and outlying houses at Whitelee Forest, near Eaglesham, 16km...

Huge homes transfer vote set for March. (Scottish News).(Glasgow Housing Association)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A ballot of tenants on what would be Britain's largest housing stock transfer will take place on 4 March with the result expected on 25 March. The timetable, announced by the Scottish Executive, is expected to be approved by Glasgow City...

Dalia & Nathaniel Lichfield Associates.(to become Lichfield Planning)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Dalia & Nathaniel Lichfield Associates is marking its tenth anniversary by renaming the consultancy Lichfield Planning and redesigning its logo. The practice specialises in aviation and airports, urban regeneration, rural diversification...

Edinburgh-based consultants Kit Campbell Associates.(appointed by the DTLR sport, open space and recreation planning guidance)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Edinburgh-based consultants Kit Campbell Associates (KCA) have been appointed by the DTLR to prepare process guidance to accompany the forthcoming revision of PPG 17 on sport, open space and recreation. The March 2001 draft PPG 17 called for...

Law firm Lovells.(planning permission for Arndale Centre)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Law firm Lovells has secured planning permission for the redevelopment of the northern part of the Arndale Centre in Manchester city centre. The firm has been advising owners Prudential in its talks with Manchester City Council on the 125...

Consultants Roger Tym & Partners.(appointed to project in Humber Bridgehead area, Hull, England)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Consultants Roger Tym & Partners have been appointed to create a masterplan for the 91ha Humber Bridgehead area near Hull. The study has been commissioned by Bridgeland Ltd, a joint venture between Wykeland Properties and Keith Brown...

Stevenage Borough Council.(Cluttons Chartered Surveyors to advise on aerial sites)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Stevenage Borough Council has appointed Cluttons as its telecommunications consultant to manage and develop aerial sites in the borough. Cluttons will advise on preparing policies for handling applications for aerials on council property. The...

JMP Consultants.(to study Gwent Economic Region public transport)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... JMP Consultants have been commissioned by Transport Intergration in the Gwent Economic Region, a regional public transport consortium of five local authorities in south east Wales, for a study of three bus stations in Newport, Blackwood and...

Transport consultants Oscar Faber.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Transport consultants Oscar Faber have been appointed by the Highways Agency to provide programme and project management services. The aim is to reorganise and simplify the management of its research activities and speed up the implementation...

WS Atkins has been appointed by the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) to deliver its Environmental Management 4 Wales initiative.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... WS Atkins has been appointed by the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) to deliver its Environmental Management 4 Wales initiative. The programme aims to encourage more than 300 companies in Wales to boost their competitiveness by providing...

Consultants Entec.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Consultants Entec have been commissioned by the Countryside Agency to examine the role that planning obligations can play in making development more sustainable. The research will look at examples of best practice where planning obligations...

Agreements under scrutiny: the government is set to overhaul the planning obligations process. (Analysis).
February 1, 2002... "The most intractable aspect of the planning system" was how the Nolan Committee's 1997 report on standards in public life described planning obligations. Now the principles and practice behind this often controversial mechanism are under...

Simplicity is the key to effective plan strategy: the plan hierarchy proposed in the planning green paper will make a dense system even more complicated. (Analysis).(Brief Article)(Column)
February 1, 2002... Simplifying the current hierarchy of development plans is a keynote proposal in the government's green paper on planning. "A single level of plan" is how the document trumpets the proposed system. Whoever wrote that phrase evidently did...

Gummer on ... planning gains, property rights and corruption. (Analysis).(John Gummer)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 1, 2002... I have always thought that the treatment of planning gain is the nearest thing we have to institutionalised corruption. The theory is fine. Developers who impose additional burdens on the community should be expected to pay a share of the cost....

Fyson on ... public services omissions and poor deals. (Opinion).(Anthony Fyson)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 1, 2002... Prime minister Tony Blair's speech last week in Newcastle in praise of public service workers was well timed to inform discussion on the future of planning. At last he seems prepared to consider first the nature of a public service, rather than...

RTPI machinations bode ill for debate. (Letters).
February 1, 2002... The new RTPI council has just had its first meeting, lam no longer a member, having decided not to stand for reelection. I was first elected in 1978, so it has been a long stint. Until about 1986, when it was disbanded, I was a member of the...

Equal access needs action not rhetoric. (Letters).
February 1, 2002... Miffa Salter's piece on the implementation of section 21 of the Disability Discrimination Act (Planning, 7 December 2001, p9) is a timely reminder. Planning tools can be considered and used as appropriate. The first tool is paragraphs 33...

Appeals are the real fly in the ointment. (Letters).
February 1, 2002... The proposals from the Council for the Protection of Rural England and its allies for third party rights of appeal (Planning, 18 January, p8)would still leave power in the arbitrary and unaccountable hands of judges and inspectors and would...

Major schemes all take a long time. (Letters).
February 1, 2002... In his article on planning for major infrastructure in other European countries (Planning, 30 November 2001, p8), David Dewar reported examples from France and Germany of approvals for major infrastructure projects being issued more quickly...

The system must stay in touch. (Letters).
February 1, 2002... Mark Southgate of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Planning, 18 January, p1) says that the "law requires" that development plans be comprehensive. It does not, with one exception. Section 36(1) of the Town and Country Planning...

How valuable are the other voices? (Letters).
February 1, 2002... So, Lord Falconer is urging local authorities to follow the measures outlined in the green paper on planning two months before he closes the period of consultation (Planning, 18 January, p1). Does this give an indication of the value the...

Planning matters by Cowan.
February 1, 2002... KELVIN MACDONALD OF ROOM SAYS THAT THE RTPI MUST BE PREPARED TO GET RID OF SOME OF THE DEAD WOOD FROM AMONG ITS MEMBERS WHAT DO YOU THINK HE MEANS? IT'S OBVIOUS. WHERE ELSE WOULD YOU FIND DEAD WOOD BUT IN... ... THE BRANCHES!

Caught in middle of an uneasy balance. (Editorial).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
February 1, 2002... The last time that the use classes system came under the microscope Britain was effectively a one-party state headed by a domineering prime minister with a population carrying huge levels of debt from spending down the high street or the pub....

Supermarket peaks: the government will fail in its bid to stimulate growth and development if it pins too much faith in securing consensus in planning.(Steve Wehrle)(Interview)
February 1, 2002... In the depths of a recession in the UK retail property industry in the mid-1990s, Steve Wehrle was on the top of a mountain in Switzerland drinking champagne and eating smoked salmon and strawberries. Doing deals, he recalls, was "bloody...

And the top prize goes to ...: the RTPI's Silver Jubilee Cup for 2001 goes to a scheme which addresses the dereliction left behind by the collapse of mining.
February 1, 2002... The Ashby Woulds lie at the heart of the former coalfield of north-west Leicestershire, where coal and clay extraction dominated the landscape until the 1980s. The collapse of deep mining left a legacy of unemployment, lower standards of living...

Quashed retail schemes in Trafford granted approval. (Development Control Casebook: the weekly legal and appeals bulletin).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The secretary of state has granted planning permission for two retail developments close to the Trafford Centre in Greater Manchester. The two schemes, promoted by Peel Investments (North) Ltd at Giant's Field and Trafford Park Estates Ltd on...

Use of grade II listed hall for functions permitted. (Development Control Casebook: the weekly legal and appeals bulletin).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... An inspector has concluded that the permanent use of part of the ground floor of Brereton Hall in Cheshire for hosting weddings, luncheons and festive and charity dinners would be acceptable subject to conditions controlling the extent of its...

Fulham football stadium decision left to local council after court ruling. (Court cases).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The High Court has refused to overturn a ministerial decision not to call in a planning application for a new 30,000-seat stadium for Fulham Football Club (Planning, 25 January, p4). A group of local residents, the Fulham Alliance, argued that...

Council secures court backing for compulsory purchase of untidy dwelling. (Court cases).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The High Court has ruled that a council can acquire a dwelling in Norfolk which had become dilapidated over a period of many years by upholding a secretary of state decision to confirm a compulsory purchase order (CPO). In rejecting the...

Applications called in.
February 1, 2002... Featherstall Road, Oldham: Application for extension to Tesco store. Main issues relate to whether there is a need for the proposed development and if so whether sequentially superior sites in the town centre are available and capable of...

Tree preservation order confirmed despite use of outdated map. (Court cases).(Yorkshire)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A landowner has failed to obtain the agreement of the High Court to quash a tree preservation order served by East Riding of Yorkshire Council at a leisure complex near Bridlington. The order covered approximately 10,000 trees on 14ha of land...

Housing scheme threatened as village green designation upheld. (Court cases).(Alfred McAlpine Homes Ltd v Staffordshire County )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Alfred McAlpine Homes North West Ltd has failed to overturn an inspector's decision to support Staffordshire County Council's decision to designate land as a village green in Leek. The company had previously obtained permission at appeal to...

Take-away decision upheld to allow use in primarily residential area. (Court cases).(fast food shop in Merseyside)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... An inspector's decision to grant permission for a takeaway use in a predominantly residential area on Merseyside has been upheld on the basis that planning policies in a unitary development plan (UDP) did not provide a blanket restriction on...

Backland dwelling ruled unlikely to affect amenity and privacy of neighbours. (Court cases).(East Sussex)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The High Court has upheld an inspector's decision to grant outline planning permission for a split-level house to the rear of an existing property in East Sussex. The challenge was brought by a neighbour who claimed that the council had been...

Illuminated pole sign at car showrooms rejected despite benefits of replacement. (Advertisements).(Tewkesbury Borough)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... An advertisement appeals officer has refused consent for the display of a pole\mounted internally illuminated box sign measuring 1.8m by 1.8m on a pole 5m high at a Ford car dealership and filling station in a residential area on the approaches...

New housing judged to harm setting of scheduled ancient monument and listed building. (Housing: New Build).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Planning permission has been refused for two dwellings with garages on a site in Nottinghamshire lying close to a dovecote which was a scheduled ancient monument and grade II listed building. The development was proposed on an open area...

Loss of village post office and shop resisted despite claimed lack of viability. (Housing: Conversion).(Hertfordshire, England)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... An inspector has refused to sanction the conversion of a village post office and shop in Hertfordshire despite the owners' arguments that the business was not viable and was only being sustained by working long and unsocial hours. The village...

Reversion of flats to single dwelling held not to require planning permission. (Housing: Conversion).(Richmond-upon-Thames , England)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A lawful development certificate (LDC) has been granted for the change of use of a house in north London from two residential units to one. The inspector noted the judgement in London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames v Secretary of State...

Shipping container in front garden not incidental to residential use of bungalow. (Householder Development).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... An inspector has rejected an appellant's argument that a shipping container parked in the front garden of a bungalow in Sandwich, Kent, involved a use which was incidental to the enjoyment of the property. In reaching this view, the inspector...

Solar panels on roof held to materially change shape of dwelling. (Householder Development).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... An enforcement notice alleging the unauthorised installation of three solar panels in the roof slope of a detached dwelling in Swanage, Dorset, has been upheld, after an inspector judged that their size and degree of projection amounted to a...

Stock car racing judged to be materially different from speedway racing. (Leisure And Entertainment).(stadium usage regulation information)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A lawful development certificate (LDC) to use a greyhound and speedway track in Newcastle to hold stock car race meetings six times a year has been rejected after an inspector judged that it was a materially different form of use of the...