Tier label used
Rural Centres
The tier sentence ¶10
“Next there are identified ‘Rural Centres’”
Summary
One self-build plot in an open Green Belt field beyond the end of a rural lane near Newcastle-under-Lyme. The inspector tested the route in detail: the quiet no-through lane itself was walkable, but it ends at the A53 with no footway, and the only bus runs six times a day with no evenings or Sundays. That failed TR3 and GB7(1)(g)(iii), so the dwelling was inappropriate. With openness and character harm and modest benefits, VSC did not exist. Dismissed.
The location finding
- TR3: fail. no services on the lane; nearest centre Clayton 2.6 km; bus stop about 860 m on the A53, which has no footway; No 64 bus 6 a day Mon-Sat, 2-hourly, last from Newcastle 1746, none Sundays/bank holidays; timetable submitted; no improvements proposed; highway authority reached similar view but did not object (DL 13-19)
- GB7(1)(g)(iii): fail. not in a sustainable location, so (g) fails whatever the position on (i) and (ii) (DL 24, 26)
Why this is cited
Site not in a Rural Centre; cited allowed appeals at Rural Centres distinguished: hierarchy against. In the register this counts as a case where the tier counted against the site.
One entry in a register of 203 decisions that matched the search for a settlement-tier label, each read at every matching passage and classified by how the label influenced the decision. The quotation was checked against the source named above. Not legal advice. © Planning Distilled. Text, data and images on this page are released under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence: share and adapt them freely, with credit to Planning Distilled. Quotations from decision letters, plans and the Framework remain the copyright of their publishers. Source and data:
github.com/planningdistilled/research.