38 Highfield Road, Nottingham

6010946·Nottingham·17 Sept 2026dismissed·26/00156/PFUL3

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶13

“the viability of local services”

Summary

The appeal sought to convert a detached family house near the University of Nottingham to a 7-bed HMO. The output area was already 65% HMO or student housing. The appeal was dismissed on housing mix and balanced community grounds. The council's noise and parking objections failed for lack of site-specific evidence. In the S4 balance, the inspector treated the loss of a family dwelling as harm "contrary to Policy HO1 of the Framework". That harm got significant weight and substantially outweighed the limited benefits.

The location finding

TR3: pass. adjacent to University, bus and tram stops; parking harm not shown (DL 22, 29)

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. generic.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6010946.txt

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