← Service Village, Not Sustainable

B · Used against the scheme

Land west of Little Smiths Farm, Drayton

6005108·Vale of White Horse·11 Sept 2026allowed·P25/V0180/O

Tier label used

Larger Village / Service Centres

What the decision says ¶62

“Identifies Drayton as a ‘Larger Village’ within the settlement hierarchy”

Why this is cited

Larger Village tier limits unallocated development to local needs: conflict found, but outweighed; 249-home allowed on S5(1)(j). 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-6005108.md · letter pins-corpus/6005108.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.