People live in the countryside for the peace and quiet and rural nature of the area. Our single track roads with hedgerows alive with a thriving mix of wildlife and flowers are a distinctive local feature. Roadside nature reserves abound due to rare plant species. These green corridors add to the rural feel of the area.
Large developments would necessitate widening of these roads which would urbanise them and destroy valued hedgerows which is contrary to the comments in this landscape character assessment.
The three hamlets of Staploe, Duloe and Honeydon (including Begwary) are very sparsely populated often with large gaps between homes and usually only with houses on one side of the road. All have countryside views from their gardens. This is very different from a larger settlement such as Thurleigh on which the Landscape Character Assessment appears to be modelling future development. Our hamlets are very different to Thurleigh.