Brishing Court Farm, Brishing Lane, Boughton Monchelsea

6007158·Maidstone·28 Sept 2026dismissed·25/505171/FULL

Tier label used

rural service centres / larger villages

The tier sentence ¶22

“then rural service centres, then larger villages or even smaller ones”

Summary

A self-build bungalow in a disused traditional orchard on the historic approach to Grade II* Brishing Court, outside any settlement near Maidstone. The inspector found moderate harm to the listed farmhouse's setting that one dwelling could not outweigh, significant localised landscape harm, a car-dependent location that was not "physically well-related" under S5(1)(j)(i), and no reptile survey. With no S5(1) category met and no exceptional circumstances, S5(4) failed. Dismissed.

The location finding

TR3: fail. mapped: narrow unlit lanes without footpaths; nearby buses infrequent and reached via those lanes; car "safer and more convenient" (DL 23); TR3 not named, S5(4) sustainable-movement limb used (DL 45-46)

Why this is cited

Sequential hierarchy; site beyond any boundary, lowest tier: against. 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/6007158.txt

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