Vyners Estate, Mill Lane, Tidmarsh

6009718·West Berkshire·4 Sept 2026dismissed·25/02270/OUT

Tier label used

settlement hierarchy

The tier sentence ¶7

“The appeal site is not located within a settlement identified in the settlement hierarchy”

Summary

Outline for three houses on a commercial storage yard in the North Wessex Downs near Tidmarsh, dismissed on many grounds. The key Framework point is that the inspector treated the houses as "isolated homes" under S5(3), being "close to, rather than within" a group of houses. That excluded them from S5 support "irrespective of whether the proposal would involve the redevelopment of previously developed land" (DL ¶60-61). Heritage setting harm, the need for a flood sequential test (the access floods), missing drainage evidence and poor accessibility also counted against it.

The location finding

TR3: fail. Mill Lane narrow, unlit, limited footpaths, sharp bends; buses only in Tidmarsh; Tilehurst route with steep inclines (DL 11-18)

Why this is cited

Unlisted; and the route failed (¶17 per green-belt.md). In the register this counts as a case where the tier counted against the site (and the route was decisive too).

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6009718.txt

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