Former Gardens to Knells House, The Knells, Carlisle

6005528·Cumberland·27 Aug 2026dismissed·24/0230

Tier label used

larger settlements (criterion)

The tier sentence ¶14

“to the larger settlements of Carlisle, Brampton and Longtown”

Summary

Six detached houses in the overgrown former gardens of Knells House, a country house near Carlisle, in a dispersed hamlet with no services. Dismissed under the local plan's rural housing policy HO 2. The formal courtyard layout jarred with the organic pattern, the scheme would form a separate group, and the only service village, Houghton, is reached by an unlit route that lacks a footway for much of its length. The benefits of six homes were given moderate weight and did not outweigh the "significant harm" from the plan conflict (DL ¶27).

The location finding

TR3: fail. Houghton about a 20-minute walk, no footway or lighting for a significant part, no formal bus stop; occupiers "highly likely" to be car reliant (DL 15-18); code mapped by harvester — letter paraphrases the Framework without a code

Why this is cited

Policy criterion needs services in the village or good access to larger settlements; none in the settlement: against. In the register this counts as a case where the tier counted against the site.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6005528.txt

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