← Service Village, Not Sustainable

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

Land East of College Road South, Aston Clinton

6008253·Buckinghamshire·24 Sept 2026allowed·25/02250/AOP

Tier label used

larger village

What the decision says ¶32

“Aston Clinton is defined within Policy S3 as a larger village which has reasonable access to facilities and services”

Why this is cited

Larger Village tier "making it a sustainable location for development" is the only articulated location reasoning; the location was common ground ("an agreed accessible location", ¶57); allowed, with secured off-site connectivity works. 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-6008253.md · letter pins-corpus/6008253.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.