Grandview House, 94 Broad Street, Wood Street (Guildford)

6009645·Guildford·18 Sept 2026dismissed·25/P/01540

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶12

“a limited number of local services and facilities”

Summary

A new dwelling in a Green Belt rear garden near Wood Street Village. It passed all four GB7(1)(g) limbs, including limb (iii), despite an unlit footway that changes sides of the road, because the footway is continuous and there is a demand-responsive bus at the drive end. So it was not inappropriate. It was dismissed on the Thames Basin Heaths SPA (no mitigation secured), unsurveyed great crested newt risk, tree and privacy harm. The costs application was refused (copy at `PINS-6009645-costs.pdf`).

The location finding

GB7(1)(g)(iii): pass. backland in a roadside hamlet, not isolated; pavement to Wood Street Village (school 800 m, post office 1 km, more services 1.6 km) is continuous but unlit, with one crossing where the footway changes sides; demand-responsive bus stop at the drive end (DL 9-14)
TR3: pass. "reasonably sustainable location in the context of its rural surroundings" (DL 14)

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. no tier; route assessed.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6009645.txt

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