← Service Village, Not Sustainable

B · Used against the scheme

Brishing Court Farm, Brishing Lane, Boughton Monchelsea

6007158·Maidstone·28 Sept 2026dismissed·25/505171/FULL

Tier label used

rural service centres / larger villages

What the decision says ¶22

“then rural service centres, then larger villages or even smaller ones”

Why this is cited

Sequential hierarchy; site beyond any boundary, lowest tier: against. 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-6007158.md · letter pins-corpus/6007158.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.