Comment

Representation ID: 19593

Received: 02/03/2009

Respondent: Evison & Company

Some development will be required in villages to meet targets but also to allow them to contribute to the achievement of a more sustainable development pattern 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.

Confining the search to those areas with good existing linkages and accessibility risks an over concentration of development in areas with capacity and environmental constraints and a relative deprivation of rural areas where new development would contribute to criterion 'b' Contribution to 'building communities', including the potential to retain and improve key services. Some development will be needed in flood risk areas to avoid the stultification of existing communities in a district where a large proportion of its land area is at risk of flooding.