Peterstone Lodge, Burnham Road, Burnham Overy Town

6009184·King's Lynn and West Norfolk·17 Aug 2026dismissed·25/01006/CU

Tier label used

Tier 6: Smaller Villages and Hamlets

The tier sentence ¶5

“categorises each of these settlements as Tier 6: Smaller Villages”

Summary

Lifting the holiday-occupancy restriction on a lodge beside a 60mph B-road in open countryside near the Burnhams was dismissed as contrary to the settlement hierarchy (LP02). Permanent occupiers would be wholly car-reliant for daily trips. The decision was issued on 17 August 2026, the day the new Framework took effect. It cites no Framework, so the S5 route for development outside settlements (including reuse of existing buildings) was never tested.

The location finding

TR3: fail. code mapped by harvester (not cited) — 60mph B1155, no footway or lighting; only school-day buses (2/day); "reliant upon the use of a car for every trip" (DL 4, 7-8, 11)

Why this is cited

Tier 6 (very limited services); LP02 restrictive: 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/6009184.txt

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