Land south of Litcham Road, Mileham

6005970·Breckland·10 Sept 2026allowed·PL/2025/1130/OMIN

Tier label used

settlement hierarchy

The tier sentence ¶6

“The Council’s spatial strategy is based on a settlement hierarchy defined in Policy GEN03”

Summary

Outline scheme for six houses (two affordable) on part of a roadside field in Mileham, a village with no settlement boundary, refused by Breckland as contrary to the spatial strategy and harmful to a visually important gap. Allowed on appeal. The inspector found conflict with the local plan and heavy car reliance, but the site passed S5(1)(j)(i) (2.82-year supply, physically well related to Mileham, modest scale), and moderate locational and landscape harm did not substantially outweigh substantial HO7 weight.

The location finding

TR3: harm. heavy car reliance for day-to-day needs; 2.8 miles to Litcham on unlit national-speed-limit roads without footway; but modest scale → no significant traffic (DL 10-12, 30, 50)

Why this is cited

Hierarchy (settlements categorised by services) and distance to larger settlements counted against; allowed on balance. 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/6005970.txt

One entry in a register of 203 decisions that matched the search for 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. © Planning Distilled. Text, data and images on this page are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence: share and adapt them freely, with credit to Planning Distilled. Quotations from decision letters, plans and the Framework remain the copyright of their publishers. Source and data: github.com/planningdistilled/research.