Settlement Categories Villages without settlement Villages with settlement boundaries Service Villages Market and Coastal Towns Weston-super-Mare boundaries and countryside

Summary of approach to Strict control Infilling only Small-scale development to support local objectives Residential development acceptable Strategic focus for growth residential development Proposed settlements Abbots Leigh Backwell Weston-super-Mare (only settlements with Claverham Portishead existing settlement Clapton-in-Gordano Cleeve boundaries are identified). Failand Dundry Churchill Felton Flax Bourton Long Ashton Leigh Woods Hutton Pill/Easton-in-Gordano Lower Langford Kenn Winscombe Portbury Kewstoke Wrington Redhill Tickenham Locking Weston-in-Gordano Sandford Winford Uphill

Summary of categories of 1+2+3+5+ 1+2+3+5+6+7+ 10. Residential development within 10+11+ residential development 1. Replacement dwellings. 6. Infilling within the settlement 8. Small-scale residential development within the the settlement boundary. If the 12. Planned new communities at acceptable in principle 2. Residential subdivision. boundary settlement boundary provided that the proposal is on a site last used for Winterstoke and Parklands. (need also to consider 3. Residential conversions of existing (up to two dwellings). proposal economic development it must be 13. Sites of 10 or more dwellings constraints as Green Belt, buildings where alternative • fulfils an identified local housing need in demonstrated that an economic use is must be employment led. flood risk etc and other economic use not appropriate. 7. Redevelopment sites within the respect of affordability or dwelling mix; and no longer suitable. policy requirements). 4. Dwellings for farm, forestry workers settlement boundary where it can be • does not generate a demand for local • 11. Residential or mixed use allocations and other essential rural workers. demonstrated that services on a scale that cannot be met; and adjacent to the settlement boundary 5. Affordable housing – rural exception • if last used for economic • Supports the retention of existing services. provided they are community-led and sites. development an economic use is provide clear local benefits such as not suitable; and 9. Small scale residential or mixed use allocations a) improvements to the mix and • that the proposal is community–led adjacent to settlement boundaries provided tenure of local housing; and/or with clear community and they are community-led and demonstrate b) important infrastructure, community environmental benefits clear local benefits such as; or environmental benefits which would a. improved local employment opportunities, otherwise not be provided; and and/or c) employment opportunities to b. improvements to the mix and tenure of support greater self-containment. local housing; and/or c. important infrastructure, community or environmental benefits which would otherwise not be provided.