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ID sylw: 107303

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Stratford-on-Avon District Social Inclusion Partnership

Consideration should be made to whether the housing needs of more vulnerable, less mobile groups that rely most significantly on the provision or public and VCS services to maintain their health and wellbeing, access services and employment, should have housing in these more rural locations.

Comments in respect of rural exception sites:

In response to PD-1, would it be possible to promote the opportunity for using Rural Exception Sites as a way to deliver more affordable rural housing schemes? Our experience shows that there are two types of homes that are usually found to be missing within the rural context - small (2 bedroom) bungalows for older persons to downsize to, and small (2 bedroom) houses for young families. Both of these groups benefit from the housing advantages presented by Rural Exception Sites.

Rural communities need to be continually adjusted and transformed to make them attractive places to live and work, and to stabilise the population.