Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 15192
Received: 29/04/2016
Respondent: Crest Nicholson
Agent: Savills UK
The draft Spatial Strategy fails to consider the local needs of the more rural areas within the Borough and is contrary to the views of the Council in the Strategic Growth Options consultation document (2015) in which it stated that "it is important to consider allowing villages to grow in order to provide for local need". There remains a need to do this for a number of reasons: to address local issues of affordability, to retain the working age population within villages, to ensure the viability and vitality of local shops and to ensure the sustainability of local services, including schools.
There should be some development land allocated in villages through Green Belt release, including Blackmore.
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