Land adjacent to Waterloo Court Health and Wellbeing Hub, Waterloo Cross, Uffculme

6011431·Mid Devon·23 Sept 2026dismissed·26/00151/PIP

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶18

“support travel to larger settlements”

Summary

This was a PiP for up to three homes on a field beside a rural health hub at Waterloo Cross, about 2 km from Uffculme. The council could show only 2.4 years' supply. The site was not isolated, but it was outside any settlement. The inspector applied S5's "substantially outweighed" test without identifying which S5(1) category, if any, applied. Car dependence under TR3 and CC2 was given substantial weight and outweighed the limited housing benefit.

The location finding

TR3: fail. Uffculme about 2km via unlit PROW across fields or unlit B3181 footway at national speed limit; no bus timetable evidence; heavy car reliance (DL 9-16, 24)

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. plain.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6011431.txt

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