While housing development at this site would adversely affect the present layout of the hamlet of Walcot Green, the site is suitable for limited housing development that respects the dispersed nature of settlement here and local ecological sensitivities. 'Safe walking routes' to local schools do not exist in most rural parts of the Norfolk and Suffolk clayland landscape, owing to the essentially dispersed settlement pattern. The same is true of Walcot Green, so it seems perverse to apply considerations of nucleated, urban planning to this locality. It is inevitable that Diss will have to be extended further into open countryside if its housing allocation (743 houses by 2038) is to be met without damaging more sensitive sites or building at much higher densities.