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A2 · Tier used as the sustainability finding, no route analysis

Land adjacent to Cedar Cottage, Furners Lane, Henfield

6007104·Horsham·24 Aug 2026allowed·DC/24/0535

Tier label used

tier 2 settlement

What the decision says ¶10

“Henfield is a ‘tier 2 settlement’”

Why this is cited

Tier 2 ("reasonable public transport services") plus a bare proximity statement ("close to High Street services, the primary school, and bus stops") is the whole location finding; no footway, lighting or frequency facts; allowed under S5(1)(j). In the register this counts as a case where the tier was treated as the sustainability finding with no route analysis, the shorthand this piece is about.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · case file cases/PINS-6007104.md · letter pins-corpus/6007104.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.