← Service Village, Not Sustainable

D · Descriptive only

Land off Butts Lane, Tanworth-in-Arden

stratford-26-00918-PIP·Stratford-on-Avon·11 Sept 2026approved·26/00918/PIP

Tier label used

Category 4 village

What the decision says (from the case file)

“a Category 4 village washed over by the West Midlands Green Belt”

Why this is cited

Category 4 (lowest) noted; GB7(1)(g)(iii) passed on the officer’s own route view ("villagers cope"); approved. In the register this counts as a descriptive mention that played no part in the reasoning.

Sources

Application on the council planning portal · case file cases/stratford-26-00918-PIP.md · quoted from cases/stratford-26-00918-PIP.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.