B · Tier acknowledged, location decided against on the route
Category 1 settlement
“The village is a Category 1 settlement, with a range of services and public transport connections”
“I crossed the 30mph carriageway and walked along the unlit footpath (on the opposite side of the street) to the village centre”
Permission in principle for one self-build house on a field strip across the road from Welland's settlement boundary. The inspector found no character or National Landscape harm, but the site fails TR3: the walk to the village centre means crossing a 30 mph road to an unlit footway, and the bus has only very limited weekday services. No S5(1) category applied (infill rejected), and with a five-year supply the modest benefits did not substantially outweigh the harm under S5(4). Dismissed.
Category 1 acknowledged, but site outside the boundary and bus "very limited"; label did not carry the location. In the register this counts as a case where the tier was acknowledged but the route evidence went against the site and decided the location.
Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6006722.txt