Beechwood House, Willoughby Road, West Willoughby

6010911·South Kesteven·25 Sept 2026dismissed·S26/0178

Tier label used

settlement hierarchy

The tier sentence ¶12

“West Willoughby is not listed within the settlement hierarchy”

Summary

One house on a paddock between two dwellings in West Willoughby, a hamlet of 15 houses in Lincolnshire. The inspector found the hamlet is not a settlement under Annex B, but the scheme is limited infilling within a group of houses under S5(1)(e). The plan policies restricting infill to named settlements got very limited weight under Annex A, and the S5 presumption applied. But the self-build BNG exemption was not secured and the 0.2 ha exemption did not apply to this application, so the statutory gain condition could not be shown capable of discharge. Dismissed on BNG alone.

The location finding

TR3: not-engaged. TR3 not cited; access judged under plan policies SD1 and ID2 and found acceptable despite an unlit footway and a considerable distance to services, with a bus and cycling available (DL 15-18)

Why this is cited

Unlisted: against. 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/6010911.txt

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