Land adjacent to 16 Mill Road, Fen Drayton

6011872·South Cambridgeshire·15 Sept 2026dismissed·26/01273/FUL

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶21

“support local services and”

Summary

The proposal was a self-build bungalow on a subdivided smallholding plot in the Fen Drayton former LSA estate, west of the village. The appeal was dismissed. Greater Cambridge had a 5.5-5.6-year supply, but the inspector treated the 456-plot self-build shortfall as the "evidenced unmet need" route into S5(1)(j). The scheme then failed (j)'s locational limbs. Most services were reachable only by car or bike, and plot subdivision harmed the estate's spacious smallholding character. CC2 conflict got significant weight, design conflict substantial weight, and the uncertain self-build benefit moderate weight.

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/6011872.txt

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