SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)·Page 106·6.308
Access to protected routes in rural areas
Farm dwellings and developments serving established commercial or industrial enterprises may use existing vehicular access onto protected routes where access cannot reasonably be obtained from adjacent minor roads. Other countryside developments meeting relevant criteria may also use existing access points under these constraints.
farm dwelling or a dwelling serving an established commercial or industrial enterprise, and where access cannot be reasonably be obtained from an adjacent minor road, then use of an existing vehicular access onto a protected route will be permitted. Approval may be justified for other developments which would meet the criteria for development in the countryside, and where access cannot reasonably obtained from an adjacent minor road, proposals will be required to make use of an existing vehicular access onto the protected route.
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