C · Tier cited in support, beside route or transport evidence
larger settlements (hierarchy)
“Battle is one of the larger settlements in the district’s hierarchy”
“services and facilities, including schools, are located close by and could likely be reached by sustainable transport modes”
Five backland bungalows and chalets within Battle, in the High Weald National Landscape. Dismissed. The inspector cleared the scheme on landscape, character, density and housing mix. It failed only because it offered no affordable housing. Once parking and visibility splays inside the red line were counted, the site was found "highly likely" to exceed the 0.3 ha threshold. That failure breached HO7/HO8 and the DP3(2)(a) mixed-tenure principle, which DP3(3) says should lead to refusal, and outweighed the benefits under S4 despite a 3.04-year supply.
Location accepted on tier "as a matter of principle"; dismissed on other grounds. In the register this counts as a case where the tier was cited in support of the scheme beside route or transport evidence.
Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6007272.txt