COMMENT

King Henry VIII Endowed Trust generally supports the District Council's decision to plan for a hierarchy of growth in the rural area however we believe that Policy PO3 would benefit from some re-wording, particularly to be clear regarding the scale of growth which will be appropriate for the Category 1, 2 and 3 villages defined in Policy PO4.

We therefore recommend that Policy PO3 is reworded to read:
It is the Council's Preferred Option to....
* allow for growth across the rural area of the District, based on a hierarchy include:
- a higher level of growth within and/or on the edge of named Category 1 and 2 villages i.e. those villages with a broad range of services and public transport to the towns, and
- a lower level of growth on brownfield land within named Category 3 villages in order to meet local need and help support existing services.

This re-wording will help to link policies PO3 and PO4.