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“the effect on local services”
Change of use of a countryside house near Tarleton to a two-child children's home was allowed. The inspector found some harm: pressure on over-stretched Lancashire services (HO9, plan policy GN3). But the scheme fell within S5(1)(c) as the reuse of an existing building, so the "substantially outweighed" test applied, and a modest harm limited to two children did not meet it. The inspector expressly departed from a December 2024-era decision (Briars Green) that had relied on need/mix policies now found only in plan-making policy HO1.
This decision was picked up by the search on the words above, which refer to services, not to a settlement tier. care home; services capacity.
Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6009486.txt