This seems to be a completely pointless application in strategic terms. Changing the planned settlement boundaries for the benefit of one individual surely makes no sense to a wider plan. If individuals are allowed exceptions to strategic development and a precedent is set of placing a settlement boundary around a single site, then settlement boundaries may as well be abolished. The applicant states that he wishes to develop the site for his grandchildren. Presumably he is not the only person in Hevingham who has grandchildren. Surely it would make more sense to consider a policy change which makes it possible to build single properties where there is a compelling argument for the sustainability of the village rather than to create ad hoc settlement areas in the local plan.