This development was not part of the initial consultation. The development is on green belt land some of which is open land used for farming. The size of the development coupled with the proposal to move the school would change the character of Ickleford which is a historic village with several listed buildings including the school and church centred around a village green.

Overall the Council's view that it is sensible to increase the size of a village like Ickleford by 40% (IC1, IC2, IC3, LC1) while it is not appropriate to recommend any development in smaller villages seems flawed. The council's argument seems to be that Ickleford has the infrastructure (school, shop, pubs and church) to support more houses while a smaller village does not. However the council is proposing so many houses that the primary school is too small and would need to be moved - better to build houses in a village without a school so that a new school can be built where there is no school. The same is true of shops; increasing the population of a village without a shop increases the viability of a shop - more useful to all of the inhabitants.