← Service Village, Not Sustainable

C · Tier noted, location decided on the route

Gravel Farm, 250 Gravel Lane, Banks

6011231·West Lancashire·15 Sept 2026allowed·2026/0042/FUL

Tier label used

Key Sustainable Village

What the decision says ¶9

“is identified in the LP as a ‘Key Sustainable Village.’”

Why this is cited

Key Sustainable Village 1 km away acknowledged; continuous pavement but "limited access to local services" still a harm; allowed via another route. In the register this counts as a case where the tier was noted but the location was decided on the actual route.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · case file cases/PINS-6011231.md · letter pins-corpus/6011231.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.