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ID sylw: 108390

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alscot Estate

Asiant : Jonathan Thompson Land & Consultancy Limited

The Estate supports delivery of small-to-medium sites as they can contribute to housing needs relatively quickly, ensuring a healthy five-year housing land supply can be maintained in the early years of the plan period.

We support the identification of BUABs to ensure proportional and sustainable growth can be accommodated within settlements without exacerbating demand on existing services, facilities and infrastructure. We support review of the settlement hierarchy. Clifford Chambers public transport can now be calculated as ‘Very Good’ rather than ‘Good’.

We do not disagree that Neighbourhood Plans can allocate small sites, or that housing, employment and other related-development can be delivered within or adjacent to BUABs outside of Green Belt locations. However, we do not think a threshold size is necessary. We suggest using similar wording to Policy DS3 in the Cotswold Local Plan, which provides a flexible policy approach which allows rural settlements with greater sustainability credentials to grow incrementally and allows scope for rural settlements to grow where they have “reasonable access” to neighbouring rural settlements with a larger range of services and facilities, considering distance, route quality, topography and pedestrian safety.

The Estate supportive growth within the Spatial Growth Strategy Priority Areas 1-3. Any growth within such circumstances located within the Cotswold National Landscape should meet other relevant policies in the emerging Local Plan.