We want to propose, within the existing policy framework, the development of some rural exception sites to provide affordable housing. We would propose two routes for this:
1. Rural exception sites to be carved out of some of the larger sites put forward, providing a much more modest and acceptable scale development.
2. Put forward possible rural exception sites in locations not submitted in the wider call for sites. There may be smaller parts of existing agricultural sites that landowners had not considered for submission, but which may nonetheless, in the context of the rural exception policy, provide better located opportunities than some of the larger previously submitted sites. A particular local constraint is the 800 metre radius from the two village centres within which housing development should take place. This current constraint points us to potential small sites at the top of Mill Lane on either or both sides, where Chivers Farms and the County Council hold land.