Land adjacent to 33A Chelford Road, Somerford (PIP, Jodrell Bank WHS)

6008864·Cheshire East·30 Sept 2026dismissed·25/3451/PIP

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶10

“key services and amenities”

Summary

Permission in principle for up to five homes on a field at Somerford, next to Congleton. Dismissed. The site met S5(1)(j), and the location conflict with local accessibility policies was limited. But the site is in the Jodrell Bank consultation zone, and no heritage statement assessed radio-frequency interference with the World Heritage Site. The inspector held that omission determinative under HE8, and the heritage balance failed.

The location finding

TR3: harm. mapped: TR3 not cited; bus, rail and services beyond local-plan distances; car reliance likely, but "relatively short in time and distance, when undertaken by private vehicle", so limited harm (DL 10-15)

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. policy wording.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6008864.txt

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