Beech Grove, Brock Road, Great Eccleston (barn to live/work)

6008848·Wyre·15 Sept 2026dismissed·25/00762/FUL

Tier label used

settlement hierarchy

The tier sentence ¶12

“LP Policy SP1 establishes the settlement hierarchy for the borough”

Summary

A barn-to-live/work conversion in rural Lancashire won on the principle and lost on access visibility. The inspector made an important finding under Annex A ¶2. The local plan's sequential hierarchy of uses for rural conversions (employment first, residential last) is more restrictive than S5(1)(c), which supports re-use "irrespective of their intended use", so conflict with it carries very limited weight. TR3(1)(a) was held not principally aimed at small-scale proposals. But TR6(4) non-compliance triggered S5(2), and the appeal failed.

The location finding

TR3(1)(a): pass. limited scale means little movement, so not the type of development TR3(1)(a) is "principally directed" at (DL 19)

Why this is cited

Outside defined settlements, development strictly limited: against. In the register this counts as a case where the tier counted against the site.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6008848.txt

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