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B · Used against the scheme

Land south of Warren Lane, Hurst Green

6004144·Tandridge·17 Sept 2026dismissed·2025/613

Tier label used

category 1 settlement

What the decision says ¶18

“identified as a category 1 settlement and acknowledged by the Council to be a large built up area”

Why this is cited

Category 1 status used to characterise Oxted as a large built-up area for grey-belt purpose (a): counted against the site. In the register this counts as a case where the tier was used against the site.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · case file cases/PINS-6004144.md · letter pins-corpus/6004144.txt

One entry in a register of 170 decisions that use a settlement-tier label, each read at every matching passage and classified by how the label influenced the decision. The quotation was checked against the source named above. Not legal advice.