Land at Main Street, Great Brington

6010826·West Northamptonshire·22 Sept 2026dismissed·2025/4825/FULL

Tier label used

Other Villages (third tier)

The tier sentence ¶5

“Great Brington falls within ‘Other Villages’ which is the third tier of the hierarchy”

Summary

A single large two-storey house on a paddock at the western entrance to Great Brington, outside the village confines. The council had no five-year supply and the site passed S5(1)(j). The appeal was still dismissed. The house was sited close to the road on a site the Village Design Statement protects as a green space and significant view, so it failed DP3. DP3 is a "should be refused" policy, so S5(2) applied and the limited benefits of one dwelling were substantially outweighed.

The location finding

TR3: neutral. within walking distance of several services, per JCS S10 (DL 17); not weighed as a benefit

Why this is cited

Third-tier village where development must be within the confines; site held outside them: against; dismissed. In the register this counts as a case where the tier counted against the site.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6010826.txt

One entry in a register of 203 decisions that matched the search for a settlement-tier label, each read at every matching passage and classified by how the label influenced the decision. The quotation was checked against the source named above. Not legal advice. © Planning Distilled. Text, data and images on this page are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence: share and adapt them freely, with credit to Planning Distilled. Quotations from decision letters, plans and the Framework remain the copyright of their publishers. Source and data: github.com/planningdistilled/research.