← Service Village, Not Sustainable

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

The Barn, Tithe Barn Lane, Earlswood (Hockley Heath)

stratford-26-01458-FUL·Stratford-on-Avon·3 Sept 2026approved·26/01458/FUL

Tier label used

local service village

What the decision says (from the case file)

“within the BUAB of an identified local service village, I am satisfied that the proposals would be in a sustainable location”

Why this is cited

SHORTHAND: GB7(1)(g)(iii) passed in one sentence on LSV boundary with no TR3 route analysis; approved. 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

Application on the council planning portal · case file cases/stratford-26-01458-FUL.md · quoted from cases/stratford-26-01458-FUL.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.