Land on road from Frost Cross to Oldborough Cross, Morchard Bishop

6012985·Mid Devon·23 Sept 2026dismissed·26/00300/PIP

Tier label used

—

The tier sentence ¶21

“ongoing spending and support for local services”

Summary

A PiP for one dwelling on a lane about 400 m from Morchard Bishop, near a scattered linear group. It was dismissed. The council lacked a 5YHLS. The site was neither limited infilling (S5(1)(e)) nor physically well-related to the settlement (S5(1)(j)), and no HO11 circumstance applied. The inspector therefore used S5(4)'s reversed test. Substantial weight to housing (HO7) did not substantially outweigh the substantial-weight harm to sustainable movement.

The location finding

TR3: fail. narrow lane without pavement, some lighting, steep hill; walk to pub over 10 minutes; bus every other hour at mid-point (DL 11-12)

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/6012985.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.