Land adjacent to Farm View Cottage (Frith Manor), Lingfield Road, East Grinstead

6008688·Tandridge·23 Sept 2026dismissed·TA/2024/1226

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶14

“access local services and facilities”

Summary

A single self-build house on grassed land beside Frith Manor, outside any settlement and about 2 km from East Grinstead. The Inspector accepted the land as grey belt and found unmet need established by the 1.92-year supply. However, the site failed GB7(1)(g)(iii)/TR3 even though a lit, continuous footway and bus stops were close by. The route and the service quality were not "genuinely attractive". Inappropriate development, significant openness harm and an unmitigated SPA effect were not clearly outweighed. The costs decision (separate PDF, `PINS-6008688-costs.pdf`) partly allowed costs against the Council for keeping a highway reason after the Highway Authority withdrew its objection.

The location finding

GB7(1)(g)(iii): fail. 2 km to East Grinstead centre and station; lit continuous but narrow footway beside busy road; two infrequent bus routes, none on Sundays; "finely balanced" (DL 14-17)
TR3: fail. no "genuinely attractive choice of transport modes"; no Connectivity Tool assessment by either party noted (DL 17-18)

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. no tier; route decided.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6008688.txt

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