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This policy applies to all parishes. Its purpose is to allow for a limited number of additional dwellings in each parish beyond those allocated or allowed for as larger scale windfall sites through other policies in this plan. The policy limits the number of homes on small scale windfall sites to three in each smaller parish and five in each larger parish (as defined in appendix 7) to prevent over development in rural areas. For the purposes of this policy, the number of dwellings allowed relates to permissions granted after adoption of the plan.
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Policy 7.5 promotes small scale housing development, including self/custom build. This complements policies 5 and 7.4 which also support self/custom build.
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To achieve this, the policy provides limited additional opportunities for the development of homes:
- adjacent to settlements with development boundaries;
- or on sites within or adjacent to a recognisable group of dwellings which do not have a development boundary.
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The policy also requires such developments to respect the character of the settlement and landscape.
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Additional requirements applying to all sites such as providing safe highways access set in policy 2 will be applied to these sites, though with greater flexibility in relation to access to services due to the very limited scale of development supported by the policy.
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It is anticipated that this policy will lead to the delivery of around 800 homes during the plan period. These homes form part of the housing supply in table 6 and policy 1 of this plan.