Forge Garage, Church Road, Churchill

6007705·West Oxfordshire·9 Sept 2026allowed·25/01974/FUL

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶33

“the garage is a valued local service”

Summary

Two stone houses replacing a working village garage in the Churchill Conservation Area, in the Cotswolds National Landscape. The loss of the employment site conflicted with local plan policy E1, and the plan as a whole. But the scheme enhanced the CA and a non-designated heritage asset. With substantial weight to housing (4.38 years' supply), L2 and solar panels, S4 justified allowing the appeal contrary to the plan.

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/6007705.txt

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