Plot 1, F I M Renewable Energy Farm, Mill Lane, Kirtlington

6009985·Cherwell·21 Sept 2026dismissed·25/02893/PIP

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶14

“the limited local services”

Summary

Permission in principle for converting an agricultural building 700 m outside Kirtlington into two homes was refused on appeal. The homes would be "isolated" (S5(3)) with no HO11 justification. The site was not physically well-related to the village (S5(1)(j)) and was almost wholly car dependent. The inspector accepted the site "could be described" as PDL attracting S5 support, but the benefits (substantial HO7 weight) were still "substantially outweighed".

The location finding

TR3: fail. Mill Lane unlit, no footway, half of route a gravel bridlepath; bus stops about 1 km; almost entirely car dependent (DL 9-15)

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; car-dependence on route.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6009985.txt

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