Comment

Representation ID: 18558

Received: 08/12/2006

Respondent: High Weald AONB Unit

Option 4 should be explored in detail in line with research undertaken for the AONB which suggests an alternative approach to rural sustainable development which would support a more dispersed development approach, supporting the AONB Management Objective to preserve the historic dispersed settlement pattern. Any option to develop villages will have a serious impact upon them, but a considerable degree of development could be absorbed within hamlets farmsteads and small settlements with minor impact upon the landcape.