Land opposite the Full Quart, Bristol Road (A370), Hewish, Puxton

6006629·North Somerset·22 Sept 2026dismissed·23/P/2593/FUL

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶25

“reasonably related to local services and facilities”

Summary

Nine permanent Gypsy and Traveller pitches on a 0.3 ha field in Flood Zone 3a near Hewish. Dismissed. The appeal was consistent with S5(1)(g): there is a large unmet need, no five-year pitch supply, and the emerging allocations are themselves in Flood Zone 3a. But permanent caravans are "Highly Vulnerable", which the new Annex F makes incompatible with Flood Zone 3a. F6 therefore says the proposal "should be refused". Under S5(2), that made the benefits "substantially outweighed" whether or not the sequential and exception tests were passed.

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/6006629.txt

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