Comment

Representation ID: 19592

Received: 02/03/2009

Respondent: Evison & Company

There are acknowledged constraints on the ability of Bexhill and the market towns to absorb development. Some development will be required in villages to meet targets but also to allow them to contribute to the development of a more sustainable development in rural areas. This not only means development in rural service centres but selective growth in the smaller villages where this will support local services and modernisation of existing facilities. This may require more substantial releases of land on the edge of villages or redevelopment within existing boundaries that will permit the development of mixed communities with a range of house types and affordability and support the modernisation and improvement of run down and relatively deprived areas.

While Option 2 is supported in principle it should therefore be sufficiently flexible to allow greater growth in those villages more remote from the existing service centres which are in danger of becoming increasingly deprived and where services can only be effectively accessed by car owners.