SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)·Page 20·4.30
Countryside Development Design Integration
All proposals for development in the countryside must be sited and designed to integrate sympathetically with surroundings, natural topography, and environmental considerations, including clustering and consolidating new development with existing established buildings.
All proposals for development in the countryside must be sited and designed to integrate sympathetically with their surroundings, including the natural topography, and to meet other planning policy and environmental considerations, including the policy approach to cluster, consolidate and group new development with existing established buildings.
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