Site I, The Mill, Catteshall Road, Godalming

6006517·Waverley·21 Sept 2026dismissed·WA/2023/02694

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶46

“future residents making use of local services”

Summary

Nine flats on a partly previously developed riverside site in Godalming, within the settlement but partly in the Area of Strategic Visual Importance (ASVI) and Flood Zones 2/3, in place of an extant office permission from 2002. Dismissed despite a 1.28-year supply. The inspector applied S4 and found the substantial housing benefits "substantially outweighed" because two national policies directing refusal were engaged: DP3(3) (design/context) and F7(2) (increased flood risk elsewhere). Inadequate play space also counted.

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. generic.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6006517.txt

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