Our client supports proposed Main Modification 010 which amends Policy SP2 to alter the categorisation of Little Wymondley from a Category A village to an 'identified village for growth'.

We agree that this change better explains the spatial strategy as it distinguishes those settlements on which the Plan is reliant for the provision of the majority of the development needed to ensure the delivery of the overall spatial strategy.

We note that a figure of 306 dwellings is ascribed to Little Wymondley.

The equivalent figure set out in ED37 2A - Draft Revision to Policy SP2 is given as 316. We question which is the correct figure, albeit, that for the following reasons we do not consider this discrepancy critical to our support in principle to MM010.

Notwithstanding consideration of the correct 'baseline' figure for Little Wymondley, the figures quoted need to be understood in the context of the requirement set out in the policy to provide at least 15,950 new homes and therefore we also support the footnote to the Policy which makes clear that the figures quoted are not a target and do not necessarily represent the maximum number of new homes that will be built. For absolute clarity however we would ask that 'in any given location' is added to the end of the footnote.