← Service Village, Not Sustainable

A1 · Relied on for the scheme, with route evidence

Home Farm, Land off A423, Southam

stratford-25-00346-OUT·Stratford-on-Avon·26 Aug 2026approved·25/00346/OUT

Tier label used

Main Rural Centre

What the decision says (from the case file)

“adjoins Main Rural Centre Southam; well related and of a scale Southam can accommodate”

Why this is cited

Main Rural Centre adjacency carried S5(1)(j) well-related/scale; approved (217 homes). In the register this counts as a case where the tier was relied on for the scheme alongside real route evidence.

Sources

Application on the council planning portal · case file cases/stratford-25-00346-OUT.md · quoted from cases/stratford-25-00346-OUT.md

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.