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Myrtle Mount, 14 Elm Grove, Hartlepool

6008410·Hartlepool·17 Sept 2026dismissed·H/2025/0256

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶9

“well connected to local services and the town centre”

Summary

The appeal sought a home for up to five disabled children in a large Hartlepool house. It was dismissed on neighbour amenity. The inspector accepted two points in the appellant's favour. The use was compatible with residential character. And it was "social care infrastructure" under the Framework glossary, attracting substantial weight under HC4. HO1(2)(f) was rejected as plan-making only. Recurring shift-change traffic along a driveway right beside No 12 was treated as a DP3(1) liveability failure, triggering DP3(3). With no operational management plan, the adverse impacts "substantially outweigh" the benefits (DL ¶44).

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.

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