Land near Fanshawes, Ware Park, Ware

6006224·East Hertfordshire·28 Sept 2026dismissed·3/25/1052/PIP

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶13

“the distance to key services”

Summary

Permission in principle for up to four homes on open land in the Green Belt between Hertford and Ware. Grey belt and unmet need (3.4 to 3.7 years' supply) were accepted, but limb (iii) failed. The site is 0.72 km and 1.15 km from the edges of the two towns, with services further on, reached along a mostly single-track, unlit lane with no pavement. A Connectivity Tool score of 49, in the 90th percentile for its rural class, did not rescue it. As inappropriate development causing openness harm, substantial weight to housing did not clearly outweigh. Dismissed.

The location finding

TR3: fail. 0.72 km to the edge of Hertford and 1.15 km to Ware, services further; mostly single-track road with no lighting or pavement; Connectivity Tool 49 (90th percentile for "Rural hamlets and isolated dwellings") outweighed by route quality; EV charging and cycle storage do not cure (DL 10-17)
GB7(1)(g)(iii): fail. not a sustainable location, so the (g) exception fails and the scheme is inappropriate (DL 18)

Why this is cited

This decision was picked up by the search on the words above, which refer to services, not to a settlement tier. "key services" is accessibility-policy wording, not a tier; decided on route.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6006224.txt

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