PPS 4 Planning and Economic Development·Page 11·2.7
Balanced community development and rural settlement
The strategy promotes vibrant rural communities through revitalised small towns and villages with appropriate scale rural development in open countryside, supported by rural industries and businesses integrated with the settlement or landscape.
An additional objective of the Spatial Development Strategy is to promote balanced community development. It seeks to sustain a vibrant rural community living in revitalised small towns, villages and small rural settlements with an appropriate scale of rural development in the open countryside. This will be assisted through the development of rural industries, businesses and enterprises in appropriate locations and of appropriate nature and scale, satisfactorily integrated with the settlement or rural landscape.
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