Land at Tuttle Farm, Lock Road, North Cotes

6009106·East Lindsey·30 Sept 2026dismissed·00434/26/PIP

Tier label used

settlement hierarchy

The tier sentence ¶8

“in accordance with the settlement hierarchy”

Summary

Permission in principle for nine houses on farmland outside North Cotes, in Flood Zone 3 within East Lindsey's Coastal Area. The sequential test statement was thin, with an unjustified narrow search area, and there was no site-specific flood evidence, so the site was unsuitable in principle despite the Environment Agency not objecting. The letter decided the case on the plan's coastal strategy and F4/F5 and did not run the S5 route, even though the site is outside the settlement. Dismissed.

Why this is cited

Site outside the settlement: conflict with SP1/SP2. 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/6009106.txt

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