It is noted that Rother Valley has revised their housing projections to take into account the recession and the move to revoke Regional Spatial Strategies.

Paragraph 12:18 states that it is assumed existing local plan allocations (if deliverable) will form part of the housing trajectory for future development and will be developed in the early stages of the plan. This is reinforced by policy RA1: Villages. Section (v) states that housing provision in villages will be located in accordance with Figure 12 (which includes housing allocations). This approach is strongly supported as Local Plan allocations have been subject to detailed consideration and consultation through the Local Plan process.

Section (ii) of the Policy advocates the encouragement of high quality sustainable economic growth by the identification of sites for local job opportunities, particularly focussing on villages identified in figure 10. This policy is strongly supported.