74-76 Coombe Road, New Malden

6009076·Kingston upon Thames·25 Sept 2026dismissed·24/02949/FUL

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶18

“support local services and facilities”

Summary

Twenty flats replacing a builders' merchants in New Malden District Centre, with no affordable housing. Kingston has only a 1.48-year supply, and the design would improve the area. But the loss of safeguarded employment land was unsupported by marketing, and the viability case for no affordable housing rested on inconsistent valuations. Under S4, with the safeguarding loss treated as an S4(2)(a)(i) type harm, the benefits were substantially outweighed. Dismissed.

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.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6009076.txt

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