Policy 2: Sustainable Communities identifies a number of criteria to ensure the delivery of high-quality development.

Criteria 4 seeks to make efficient use of land. However, this principle has not been applied to the selection of the preferred housing allocation in Marsham. In this case, a greenfield site at land south of Le Neve Road, Marsham (Ref. GNLP2143) is identified as a preferred housing allocation, when a site containing vacant and unused buildings/hardstanding associated with a former poultry unit at Fengate Farm, Marsham (Ref. GNLP3035) is available for development but is only identified as an unreasonable alternative. This outcome would be inconsistent with Criteria 4 of Policy 2 and would not make efficient use of land. As set out in the representations to the GNLP Site Allocations document for the Marsham sites, it is requested that land at Fengate Farm site should be identified as a housing allocation in emerging GNLP in preference to a greenfield site.