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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Acres Land & Planning

I am pleased that the SWLP acknowledges the role of small scale development in local communities, but it is very clear that small scale development will form a residual once the strategic sites have been allocated. The whole emphasis of the plan is about finding large sites to accommodate high numbers of housing (many of them in remote locations) which will have as little political impact as possible, rather than finding places in or around local communities where people actually wish to live. The Councils’ attitude towards rural settlements appears to be to define BUAB’s tightly, then devise policies which only allow development within village confines or on sites proposed in Neighbourhood Plans – i.e. with local consent, when the main ambition of most Neighbourhood Plan Teams is to prevent additional housing rather than to promote it.