Land south of 2 Leighton Road, Hamerton

6008987·Huntingdonshire·29 Sept 2026dismissed·25/02302/FUL

Tier label used

smaller settlements

The tier sentence ¶11

“for the smaller settlements in the district, Policy LP 9 recognises this”

Summary

One large detached house on a paddock at the edge of Hamerton, a dispersed village with no services, no pavements and two buses a weekday. The scheme passed S5(1)(j) as spatially well related, and car dependence was given only limited weight. It failed on design: an overly dominant building at the village edge, with no clear justification, so DP3(3) carried substantial weight and the benefits were substantially outweighed.

The location finding

TR3: harm. no pavements, narrow unlit roads, 2 buses each weekday, 20-minute cycle to Sawtry on rural roads; heavy car reliance; but TR3(1)(e) rural opportunities and S5 support for edge sites reduce weight to limited (DL 8-11, 39)

Why this is cited

Smaller-settlement tier (restrictive policy) plus two-buses-a-day: against, route decisive. In the register this counts as a case where the tier counted against the site (and the route was decisive too).

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6008987.txt

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