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The scale of development that could occur within the framework of this new local plan is inappropriate for the size/location of Norton Lindsey. The village already suffers from some past inappropriate ribbon development, which has only be constrained by the Green Belt policies that the council now wish to abandon. Development of the size that would be permitted under the proposals would potentially increase the size of the village population significantly without the required growth in amenities that would be required (swathes of the village have no pavements for example, public transport links are limited to one or two buses a week). It is not realistic to suggest that amenities may grow as the population grows, the village is still too isolated for the catchment area that shops, public transport etc would require to be commercially viable and in these straightened financial times, it is not likely that the council could provide these services. Development on the scale envisaged would likely destroy the very character of a village that the council seek to protect through a conservation area statement which documents that ' Views of surrounding open fields
enhance the ridge top setting of the Conservation Area.'