The site owners do not support the approach to Village Clusters as drafted within Policy 7.4 for the reasons set out in Section 3 of LPP's submitted Statement.

It is requested that the policy is amended to include the existing employment allocation (site reference HNF3) land West of Abbey Farm Commercial Park within the policy.

It is also requested that the text is amended to allow for the expansion of small and medium
sized employment sites.

We therefore request that the penultimate paragraph of Policy 7.4 is amended as follows:
• Other small-scale employment development will be acceptable in principle elsewhere within
village development boundaries or through the re-use of rural buildings or through the
potential expansion of existing small and medium sized employment sites (LPP suggested
text) subject to meeting other policies in the development plan.