D · Descriptive only

Land to the rear of Abbey Gardens, Southport Road, Lydiate

6008723·Sefton·23 Sept 2026dismissed·DC/2025/02052

Tier label used

Rural Service Centre

What the decision says ¶13

“identified in the development plan as a Rural Service Centre rather than a town”

Why this is cited

Used only to distinguish a cited appeal in the grey-belt analysis. In the register this counts as a descriptive mention that played no part in the reasoning.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · case file cases/PINS-6008723.md · letter pins-corpus/6008723.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.