Land adjacent to 50 Middleton Way, Fen Drayton

6009303·South Cambridgeshire·10 Sept 2026dismissed·25/04091/OUT

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶16

“support local services and”

Summary

Two self-build dwellings on a former smallholding on the Fen Drayton LSA estate, about 1 km from the village's school and 1.3 km from shops, off an unlit private road with no footway. The appeal was dismissed as heavily car dependent. The self-build benefit collapsed because the unilateral undertaking was unenforceable, and there was no evidence of a 5YHLS or HDT failure to trigger S5(1)(j).

The location finding

TR3: fail. private road narrow, unlit, no footway; school 1.0 km, shops 1.3 km (Fenstanton), pub 1.5 km; bus stops realistically reachable only by cycle; heavily car dependent (DL 7-10, 20)

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; location decided on route/(j).

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6009303.txt

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