← Service Village, Not Sustainable

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

Land at OS 7540 6621 Stourport Road, Great Witley (4 dwellings)

6010196·Malvern Hills·18 Sept 2026dismissed·M/25/01626/FUL

Tier label used

settlement hierarchy (village with services)

What the decision says ¶13

“Great Witley is identified in the development plan settlement hierarchy as a village”

Why this is cited

Tier → "therefore reasonably accessible to the village’s services" with no route analysis; dismissed on other grounds. 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-6010196.md · letter pins-corpus/6010196.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.