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Representation ID: 5687

Received: 07/09/2021

Respondent: Miss amber scally

Staploe Parish Neighbourhood Plan survey demonstrated that the peace and quiet, open countryside views and rural feel of our parish are of great value to our residents. In addition, our single track, often high sided lanes and roads are a distinctive local feature. Many have roadside nature reserves due to the rare plants present such as Bath Asparagus. The verges and hedges are cut as little as we can manage in order to maintain visibility and this has enhanced them as green corridors and added to the rural feel of the area. Developing a large new town of Dennybrook (site 977) or other large sites in Duloe such as Cobholden, Manor Farm, Duloe Field, Flints Field and Top Homes may necessitate widening of these roads which would urbanise them and destroy valued hedgerows which is contrary to the comments in this landscape character assessment. We would also like to point out that our hamlets are very different to Thurleigh. Our 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 different from a larger settlement such as Thurleigh on which the Landscape Character Assessment appears to be modelling future development.