Hall Farm, Copt Oak Road, Copt Oak

6006388·North West Leicestershire·25 Aug 2026dismissed·25/01015/FUL

Tier label used

settlement hierarchy

The tier sentence ¶6

“Policy S2 of the LP sets out the Council’s settlement hierarchy”

Summary

Conversion of a former groom's flat in a farm courtyard to a separate house, in a hamlet classed as countryside. Dismissed. Heavy car reliance (no services, unlit B591 with no footway) conflicted with the local plan's countryside accessibility criterion, and the building was not shown to be redundant or disused, so the Framework's isolated-homes re-use route did not help.

The location finding

TR3: fail. cited as "T3"; no services nearby, B591 unlit with no footway; heavy reliance on private car (DL 10-12, 15)

Why this is cited

Reuse acceptable only "in accordance with the Settlement Hierarchy"; remote site failed. 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/6006388.txt

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