Mid Suffolk Parish Profile
Mid Suffolk District Council
Planning Policy
September
2007
Introduction
The background paper is to provide an evidence base for supporting and justifying Mid
Suffolk District Councils Core Strategy Development Plan Document (DPD). This paper
examines all the factors that have been taken into account in identifying key service
centres, primary villages, secondary villages and countryside villages.
The report commences with a brief review of Government guidance and other relevant
literature to set the policy context, followed by an explanation of the methodology used
for producing the settlement strategy. The consultation process and representations
made are summarised followed by the data which has been used in the formulation of
the strategy is presented.
The paper defines the criteria which is used to inform the settlement hierarchy and
classifies villages accordingly. The criteria alone does not classify a village, its local
context, past residential growth and parish council aspirations is also used as a
determining factor.
A series of appendices is included, which contains sustainability and identified services
and facilities summary and individual parish profiles. The information has been collated
from information requests, consultations, parish plans and websites.
Background
The settlement strategy in the background paper has evolved from the concept of a
settlement hierarchy. Settlement hierarchies involve the classification of settlement
types based on population size, the provision of facilities and accessibility to services in
order to guide the type and proportion of development.
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Additionally they may also demonstrate what extra facilities are required in a specific
location.
Planning Policy Statement (PPS)1, PPS3, Planning policy Guidance (PPG) PPG4,
PPS6, PPS7 and PPG13 require the development to be in accordance with the most
sustainable option therefore indirectly encourage the use of a settlement hierarchy
approach to guide new development.
The Council has to ensure that all decisions on where new development should be
located are based on fundamental sustainability factors. To support this, work has been
undertaken to assess the availability of key services and facilities in villages across the
District.
Methodology for production of Mid Suffolk’s Settlement Hierarchy
The work underpinning this evidence base and the development of the settlement
strategy has been structured as follows:
1. Review of Government guidance, including relevant Planning Policy Statements
and the Regional Spatial Strategy
2. Review of Suffolk’s Environment…towards sustainable development
3. Desk-top and site visit study of current availability of key services
4. Consultation of study (summary of representations)
5. Final Village profile of every village.
6. Identification of Settlement Hierarchy
1. Policy Context
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To set the policy context, the following paragraphs contain government guidance
pertinent to the concept of settlement hierarchies and to development in villages from
the Key Service Centre level and below.
Importantly, and with regard to the settlement hierarchy approach PPS7: Sustainable
Development in Rural Areas states that
“Planning authorities should focus most new development in or near to local service
centres where employment, housing (including affordable housing), services and other
facilities can be provided close together” (para.3.)
Planning authorities should set out in LDDs their policies for allowing some limited
development in, or next to, rural settlements that are not designated as local service
centres, in order to meet local business and community needs and to maintain the
vitality of these communities” (para.4)
The Planning Policy Statement also requires
“most development to be focused in, or next to, existing towns and villages” (para.1.ii),
and requires that;
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“Accessibility should be a key consideration in all development decisions” (para.1.ii)
Furthermore, it is stated that
“new building development in the open countryside away from existing
settlements…should be strictly controlled” (para.1.iv)
Specifically in relation to housing development, PPS3: Housing emphasises the
Government’s aim of delivering high quality housing that contributes to the creation and
maintenance of sustainable rural communities in market towns and villages (para.3).
With regard to the location of new development, PPS3 requires housing to be
“developed in suitable locations which offer a range of community facilities and with
goods access to jobs, key services and infrastructure” (para.36)
This supports the hierarchy approach, as it assumes that it is inherently more
sustainable to locate development where it benefit from existing facilities and
infrastructure. This approach corresponds with the general principles of sustainable
development set out in PPS1 and which underpin other Planning Policy Statements and
Government guidance. These requirements seek to ensure that development is located
in what are judged to be the most sustainable locations, having regard to the provision
of services and the need to control development outside of existing settlements.
There is also a requirement in PPS3 to give appropriate consideration to functional
relationships between settlements in rural areas in determining the distribution of
development and growth (para.38).
PPS7 states that LPAs should, through their Local Development Documents (LDD)s,
“facilitate and plan for accessible new services and facilities particularly where:
i.
planning permission is granted for new developments in country towns or
other local service centres
ii.
settlements, or the population of their rural catchments, are expanding
iii.
there is an identified need for new or expanded services to strengthen the
role of particular local service centre” (para.6i)
Regional Spatial Strategy
The Secretary of States Proposed Changes to the Draft Revision to the Regional
Spatial Strategy for the east of England and Statement of Reasons (December 2006)
The document requires some 8,300 new homes to be provided in Mid Suffolk over the
period 2001 – 2021. Whilst Policy SS4 requires the focus of development to be
distributed amongst the towns and key service centres. Provision can be made for the
smaller villages.
“Policy SS4: Development in Towns other than Key Service Centres and in Rural Areas
Local development documents should define the approach to development in towns
other than those listed in policy SS3, and in rural areas. Such towns will include
selected market towns and other towns with the potential to increase their economic
and social sustainability through measures to:
 support urban and rural renaissance;
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secure appropriate amounts of new housing, including affordable housing, and
local employment and other facilities; and
improve the towns accessibility, especially by public transport
They should also consider the potential of other key service centres to accommodate
development which is sympathetic to local character and of an appropriate scale and
nature in relation to local housing and employment needs.
For other rural settlements they should seek to support the continued viability of
agriculture and other economic activities such tourism, the diversification of the
economy, the provision of housing for local needs and the sustainability of local
services.”
The supporting text goes on to state
“The RSS seeks to locate the majority of new development in and adjacent to the Key
Centres for Development and Change, and to protect the quality and character of the
regions rural areas. However, within that broad approach, policy SS4 recognises the
role of market towns and larger villages in providing employment and services to their
rural hinterlands and meeting housing needs.
Key Service Centres are large villages with a good level of services, which might
include:
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a primary school within the settlement and a secondary school within the
settlement or easily accessible by public transport;
a primary health care facilities;
a range of retail and service provision capable of meeting day-to-day needs, in
particular for convenience shopping
local employment opportunities; and
frequent public transport to higher order settlements.
The document also states that
“the growth of villages ahs been unable to halt the closure of village services and
commuting has increased dramatically. Careful examination of how a settlement of
groups of settlements function is required, as well as an analysis of the service base, to
determine the best solutions for each area” (para.3.20)
Lastly, for those smaller villages, the RSS states
“Other rural settlements, including small villages, may have local housing needs that
can best be met at those settlements rather than concentrating all housing at towns and
key service centres, but care should be taken to ensure new development is directed to
locations where it will have the greatest benefits for rural sustainability” (para.3.21)
Mid Suffolk’s Core Strategy must reflect and ‘conform’ with the overall policy context. In
particular we will need to have regard to:
i.
those settlements which function as a Key Service Centre and which could
potentially offer suitable location for accommodating some of Mid Suffolk’s
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future growth requirements (subject to planning, environmental and other
designations and constraints);
those settlements where there is a clear development need, be it for
affordable housing, business or to fill a gap in service provision such as to
meet a need for a new doctors surgery;
those settlements where there are services available and where some
development could help sustain the existing service base; and
whether there are a geographic clusters of settlements which are closely
related functionally and where there is provision on collective basis;
Evidence Base and Preparation
Fundamental to the formulation of this Settlement Strategy is the identification of
services that exist and the identification of Key Service Centres in accordance with
PPS7 and RSS Policy SS4.
The formulation is not prescribed by Guidance, however the RSS provides some criteria
for determining key service centres. Ultimately it is for the Local Authority to determine
which villages should be identified.
Mid Suffolk is predominantly rural and contains 122 parishes. The District contains three
market towns and therefore it was considered necessary to complete a parish profile
identify Primary and Secondary Villages in addition to Key Service Centres. In line with
national guidance and regional policy - PPS1, PPS3, RSS4 and due to the very rural of
Mid Suffolk, a balance is needed between protecting the countryside while facilitating
beneficial development. The additional classifications will benefit sustainability in rural
areas.
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Key Service Centres
Primary Villages;
Secondary Villages; and
Countryside Villages.
The following breakdown of development would be applicable for each hierarchy:
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Town: the main focus for development
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Key Service Centres: the main focus of development outside the towns
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Primary Village: villages capable of limited growth where this will meet local
needs
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Secondary Village: villages unsuitable for growth but capable of taking infill
development and development for local needs only.
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The Countryside / Countryside Villages: open countryside and villages below
secondary villages where only the types of development will be permitted
excluding market housing.
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2. Suffolk’s Environment
Suffolk’s Environment is a partnership project involving eight local planning authorities.
The partnership monitors a range of social, economic and environmental indicators,
which enable them to assess Suffolk’s progress towards sustainable development.
Indicator 31: Percentage of Rural Population living in Parishes which have a food shop
or general store, post office, pub, primary school and meeting place.
The General objective of the indicator derives from the Rural White Paper Our
Countryside: the future. A fair deal for rural England had a stated aim for villages ‘to be
active, living communities, where people are also able to meet their essential needs and
with opportunities for both old and young”. The White Paper also establishes a
requirement for the post office network to be maintained and a presumption against the
closure of rural primary schools.
The methodology involved writing to every Parish Clerk within the District to obtain a
complete list of services and facilities in villages (Appendix A.1). This request for
information was sent annually. Not all parish clerks provided a return (on average 50%).
Therefore the data was not completely accurate and up to date. The last update was in
2005/06 (Appendix A.2).
The table below identifies the % of rural population as a whole living in parishes which
have a food shop, post office, pub, primary school and meeting place. The table clearly
shows the number of villages with all 5 facilities decreased and then increased annually
to 2005/06. The main reason for this improvement is the adoption of the ‘Supplementary
Planning Guidance for Village Shops, Pubs and Post Offices’ (February 2003) which
seeks to protect these facilities from change of use to residential.
Babergh
Forest Heath
Ipswich
Mid Suffolk
St
Edmundbury
Suffolk
Coastal
Waveney
Suffolk
Total Rural
Pop (2005)
46,399
13,425
0
60,987
42,310
01/02
02/03
03/04
04/05
05/06
49.8%
41.6%
64.0%
44.0%
39.8%
51.6%
41.5%
43.1%
47.8%
29.18%
54.06%
22.49%
47.71%
34.30%
54.06%
49.68%
48.92%
43,583
29.6%
29.8%
44.5%
35.71%
35.71%
13,452
220,156
33.8%
41.0%
11.9%
43.2%
11.9%
42.0%
12.20%
33.0%
3.09%
40.95%
(Source: Suffolk’s Environment Monitoring Report 2005/06)
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3. Availability of Key Services
Fundamental to the formulation of the Settlement Strategy is to record a range of key
services including:
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Permanent Food Shop
School
Surgery (permanent / mobile)
Bus 5 days a week and more
Post Office
Recreation
Village Hall / Meeting Place
Local Employment
Based on the information received from the Parish Councils for the Suffolk’s
Environment project, Mid Suffolk District Council undertook a desk top study in March
2006 to update this database of services and facilities.
The study involved the Geographical Information System (an in house mapping system)
to locate community buildings and any services that exist. The parish websites and
parish plans if available were used to locate additional information and site visits
followed to identify any queries that exist.
Information boards provided useful information and local parish magazines also
provided a useful source of information.
In March 2006, a village profile was prepared for every parish within Mid Suffolk.
4. Consultation of Study
The March 2006 Parish Profile’s were the summarised at the time of the Core Strategy
Preferred Options Report (May 2007). Every Parish was provided with the Preferred
Options Consultation and the summarised Parish Profile. A letter (Appendix B.1) was
sent to every parish clerk, requesting a response to the consultation and the evidence
base.
It was also an opportunity for the parish council to add any additional comments if
applicable.
The consultation received a number of representations. From 122 parishes, 41 Parish
Councils responded to the Settlement Hierarchy and the evidence base. A short
comment is listed within the table below. The full responses to the settlement hierarchy
from parish councils and all other comments together with Council’s recommendation is
listed within Appendix B.2.
Parish Council
Akenham
Ashbocking
Comment
None (happy)
Ok but concerned
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Badwell Ash
Barking
Botesdale
Bramford
Buxhall
Combs
Cotton
Drinkstone
Elmswell
Eye
Great Ashfield
Harleston
Hoxne
Little Blakenham
Mendlesham
Metfield
Nettlestead
Offton
Onehouse
Pettaugh
Rattlesden
Redgrave
Rickinghall
Ringshall
Shelland
Somersham
Stradbroke
Stonham Aspall
Stowlangtoft
Syleham
Thurston
Thorndon
Westhorpe
Woolpit
Worlingworth
Wortham
Whetherden
Wyverstone
Yaxley
Happy about BA, but not Long Thurlow
Ok but concerned
No objection
Not keen Bramford KSC
Support
Observations
Support
pleased
Agree
Support
Unhappy Secondary/ Primary
Observations
Agree
Agree
Support
More or less ok
None
Agree, concerned
Want infilling
Don’t agree, countryside
Accept, local development define
Want to be primary. Object
Acceptable
Secondary
Support
Approve
Ok not keen development
Support
Observations
approve
Support
None
Agree
Ok no comment
Agree broadly
Strongly oppose
Support
Happy should be countryside
Object
5. Final Village Profile
Lastly, these representations required an amendment to the evidence base and the
settlement hierarchy. A summary of all services and facilities for each parish together
with locational and employment opportunity information when available has been
prepared (Appendix C).
Lastly, a parish profile (Appendix D) was updated for each Parish within Mid Suffolk. As
there are 122 parishes within mid Suffolk, separate copies of the Parish Profile can be
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obtained from the District Offices. The information to determine a key service centre,
primary, secondary and countryside village is provided within this summary table.
6. Identification of Settlement Hierarchy
Identifying Key Service Centres
Key Service Centres are described in the draft Regional Spatial Strategy as large
villages with a good level of services, which might include:
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A primary school within the settlement and a secondary school within the
settlement or easily accessible by public transport
Primary health care facilities
A range of retail and service provision capable of meeting day-to-day needs, in
particular for convenience shopping
Local employment opportunities
Frequent public transport to higher order settlements
It is our view, supported by sustainability appraisal, national guidance and
representations to earlier consultation that a settlement hierarchy based solely on these
criteria will not facilitate sustainable development in Mid Suffolk and additional criteria
are set out below.
Additional Criteria used to determine Key Service Centres:
(a). Size Threshold
In Mid Suffolk the settlement pattern is of one dominant market town in the south with
the next largest town close-by, while elsewhere there is a pattern of a large number of
closely spaced small to medium sized villages. Nearly all the largest villages provide
most of the services listed above and with so many villages offering similar levels of
facilities there is a need to focus on the largest, best served villages in an area and we
therefore propose that size of settlement be one of the criteria and that only villages with
a population in excess of 1,000 be considered for inclusion as key service centres.
(b). Locational criteria
In some cases facilities such as health care and secondary schools may be shared by a
group of villages and unless additional locational criteria are taken into account, large
areas of Mid Suffolk would be left without a key service centre. This is particularly
important in Mid Suffolk because it has only one major town (Stowmarket) on the A14 in
the south of the district. This pattern of a single dominant settlement in a district of 336
square miles is different to that of other districts in Suffolk which have subsidiary towns
(much larger than Needham Market) located across their districts.
The lack of major settlements in the district requires that the sustainable development in
most areas must be provided primarily in key service centre villages and that these
must be identified in locations that give access to key facilities to all areas of the
district. This need to identify key service centres in all areas may be mitigated where
villages are located near to towns or service centres in adjoining districts. The impact
from neighbouring towns in different areas is considered below together with the
implications for named villages
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(c). Influence from centres outside the District
Ipswich is situated close to the Eastern boundary of the District and its influence is
formally recognised in the inclusion of 6 parishes in the "Ipswich Policy Area" and
therefore in the Haven Gateway Partnership area. The Regional Spatial
Strategy identifies a specific housing growth target from the villages in the policy area.
In accordance with this regional strategy Mid Suffolk will identify as key service centres
the settlements within the policy area that are capable of sustaining the required
housing development, largely on brownfield sites and include - Claydon (with part
Barham), Great Blakenham and Bramford.
There is a similar but smaller influence from Bury St Edmunds in the west but no formal
recognition in the regional strategy. The large villages closest to Bury are Thurston
and Elmswell, which are the two largest villages in the District with multiple services
and both have main-line railway stations, good bus links and are therefore well served
by public transport to higher order settlements. They have good access to primary
health care facilities in either Bury or in the nearby village of Woolpit, which is the fourth
largest village in Mid Suffolk and also has a high level of facilities including an industrial
estate. All three are therefore key service centres but removing the settlement
boundaries from the outlying parts of Woolpit at Woolpit Green, Woolpit Heath and
Borley Green.
In the north of the district there is influence close to the border from both Diss and
Harleston. The villages closest to these towns do not have the full range of services
and cannot be self sufficient. The reality for many residents is that the two towns in
neighbouring districts act as service centres to villages on this border. It is not
proposed to duplicate the services offered by these towns by nominating any nearby
village in Mid Suffolk as a key service centre.
d). Remote areas of the District
As noted above, Mid Suffolk does not have a spread of significantly sized towns across
the District and therefore, where there is no adjacent town outside the district, local
sustainable services must be provided within villages. Key service centres are therefore
identified across the district to ensure that essential services can be sustainably
delivered in all areas. This is particularly important in the North East of the District and
in the centre away from the A14 and A140 main trunk roads where the villages of
Stradbroke and Debenham are put forward as key service centres while Bacton,
Mendlesham and Botesdale / Rickinghalls fill gaps elsewhere.
(e). Other
Other key service centres are Haughley and Stowupland. They both lie adjacent to
the A14, are well serviced and are both comfortably within the top ten largest villages in
Mid Suffolk. Haughley is midway between Stowmarket and Elmswell and currently has
a settlement boundary around the main village and another around a more distant group
of houses known as 'Haughley Green'. The removal of the settlement boundary from
Haughley Green is required so that any future development is focussed closer to the
existing services and facilities.
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Stowupland is situated very close to the new Stowmarket Development Area but is
protected from encroachment from Stowmarket by the barrier of the A14. Stowupland is
extremely well served by shops, schools and other facilities with easy access to
employment sites both local and through frequent public transport links to Stowmarket
and other centres inside and outside the district.
Criteria for Key Service Centre Villages
 Size / population - capacity to absorb growth
 Accessibility – public transport
 Local Employment
 Primary School
 Health services
 Convenience Store
 Village Hall / Community Centre
 Pub
 Post Office
 Traffic capacity
 Capacity of utilities
 Local Need identified in Parish Plan
Key Service Centres
Bacton
Botesdale/Rickinghalls
Bramford
Claydon (with part Barham) & Great
Blakenham
Debenham
Elmswell
Haughley (excluding Haughley Green)
Mendlesham
Stowupland
Stradbroke
Thurston
Woolpit (excluding Woolpit Green, Heath and Borley
Green)
Identifying Primary Villages
Those villages which have basic local services including a primary school and food
shop, will be classified as "Primary Villages", where small scale housing growth to
meet local needs, particularly affordable housing, will be appropriate. Development will
be limited to sites within their settlement boundaries or, by allocation in the Site Specific
Allocation document to sites adjacent to settlement boundaries.
Local needs may include employment, amenity and community facilities as well as
housing and may be identified through annual monitoring or in locally generated
documents such as parish plans or local needs surveys. Sites for these facilities will be
sought within settlement boundaries but we will also consider alternative sites to meet
operational needs and/or mitigate impacts on residential amenity, environment and the
landscape.
Primary Villages
Badwell Ash (excluding Long Thurlow)
Fressingfield
Gislingham
Norton (excluding Little Green, Ashfield Road)
Old Newton
Rattlesden
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Great Finborough (includes part of Buxhall
parish)
Hoxne (excluding Low Street)
Laxfield
Somersham
Walsham-le-Willows
Identifying Secondary Villages
These are villages with a reduced range of services and facilities that have either a
school or a shop but not both. They may have a range of other facilities and services
but will be dependant on nearby towns or key service centres to provide the full range of
essential facilities.
These villages will retain a settlement boundary and benefit from small-scale
development to meet local needs but not the level of growth envisaged for primary
settlements. Local needs include employment, amenity and community facilities as well
as small-scale infill housing and "rural exception" sites for affordable housing. Local
needs may be identified through annual monitoring or in locally generated documents
such as parish plans or local needs surveys.
Settlement boundaries will be retained to facilitate appropriate development while
directing it to appropriate locations and restricting the scope and scale of development.
The position of settlement boundaries for these villages will be reviewed in the Site
Specific Allocation document to ensure that there is no overprovision through
inappropriate infill.
Secondary Villages
Bedfield
Beyton
Coddenham
Combs
Creeting St. Mary (excluding Jacks Green)
Felsham
Henley
Horham
Mellis
Mendham
Metfield
Occold
Onehouse
Palgrave
Redgrave
Ringshall (Stocks)
Stoke Ash
Stonham Aspal
Thorndon
Tostock
Wattisham Airfield
Wetheringsett (excluding Brockford Street)
Wilby
Wortham
Worlingworth (excluding Church, Church Road)
Yaxley
Following the Preferred Options consultation. The updated evidence base and parish
comments required the following amendments to the settlement hierarchy.
Onehouse (from No Settlement Boundary to Secondary Village)
Amend Settlement Hierarchy – from countryside village to secondary village. Onehouse
has a very large population and its location is less than 1 mile from the Market Town
Stowmarket. The Parish Council has requested the need for appropriate infill.
Redgrave (from No Settlement Boundary to Secondary Village)
Amend settlement hierarchy – Redgrave from countryside village to secondary village
as the residents commutes to outside shops and school and has a relatively low
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population. However it would gain a new shop in September and therefore has
sufficient facilities to be considered a Secondary Village.
Thorndon (from Primary Village to Secondary Village)
No food shop.
Wortham (from Primary Village to Secondary Village)
Wortham only has one permanent shop that is under threat as it is associated with the
Post Office and both are likely to close when the Post Office Consultation is completed.
The food sold in the shop is very limited and residents rely on larger food shops in Eye,
Botesdale and Diss. Wortham is designated as a Secondary Village because of the
absence of qualifying facilities and in order to protect and preserve many unique
features.
Yaxley (from No Settlement Boundary to Secondary Village)
The Eye Airfield Industrial site offers a reasonable level of employment within close
proximity to Yaxley. Amendment to settlement hierarchy – from countryside village to
secondary village status.
Identifying Countryside Villages
The rest of Mid Suffolk, including all settlements not listed above, will be designated as
Villages other than those listed as key service centres, primary and secondary villages
will lose their settlement boundary status, preventing infill, so that development will only
be permitted in circumstances where a proven need has been justified. Such
exceptions might be for affordable housing where a local need is identified or small
scale employment that can be operationally justified and where these developments
cannot be met in a more sustainable location. Criteria to be applied to planning
applications for such developments will be set out in future Development Control
Policies.
Akenham
Ashbocking
Ashfield Cum Thorpe
Aspall
Athelington
Badley
Badwell Ash (Long
Thurlow)
Barham (Sandy Lane)
Barking
Battisford Tye
Baylham
Bedingfield (both parts)
Braiseworth
Brome & Oakley
Brundish
Burgate
Buxhall
Villages with no settlement boundaries
Gedding
Shelland
Gipping
Southolt
Gosbeck
Stonham Earl
Great Ashfield
Stonham Parva
Stowlangtoft
Great Bricett
Harleston
Stuston
Haughley (Green)
Syleham
Helmingham
Hemingstone
Hessett
Hinderclay
Hunston
Kenton
Langham
Little Blakenham
Little Finborough
Mendlesham Green
Tannington
Thornham Magna
Thornham Parva
Thrandeston
Thwaite
Wattisfield
Westhorpe
Wetherden
Wetheringsett (Brockford Street)
Weybread
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Cotton
Creeting St. Mary (Jacks
Green)
Creeting St. Peter
Crowfield
Denham
Drinkstone
Finningham
Flowton
Framsden
Mickfield
Whitton
Monk Soham
Wickham Skeith
Nettlestead
Norton (56b Little Green)
Offton
Pettaugh
Redlingfield
Rishangles
Willisham Tye
Wingfield
Winston
Woolpit (Green, Heath, Borley Green)
Worlingworth (Church, Church Road)
Wyverstone
Following the Preferred Options consultation. The updated evidence base and parish
comments required the following amendments to the settlement hierarchy.
Stowlangtoft (from Secondary Village to No Settlement Boundary)
Amend to Countryside, lack of shop or school. Small population.
Barking (from Secondary Village to No Settlement Boundary)
Amend to Countryside, lack of shop or school. Small population.
Pettaugh (from Secondary Village to No Settlement Boundary)
Change Settlement Hierarchy for Pettaugh from secondary village to countryside village
status. Small population, limited facilities, parish council support for amendment.
Wyverstone (from Secondary Village to No Settlement Boundary)
Village has no shop or school
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Appendices
A.1
Letter to all Parish Clerks in Mid Suffolk
A.2
Services and Facilities within each Parish in Mid
Suffolk
B.1
Letter to all Parish Clerks in Mid Suffolk –
Evidence base and Settlement Hierarchy
comment request
B.2
Consultation response summaries to Settlement
Hierarchy
C
Summary of Village services
D
Example Parish Profile: Bramford
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APPENDIX: A.1
Environment & Planning
To all Parish Councils in Mid Suffolk.
Please ask for:
Direct line:
Fax number:
Your reference:
Our reference:
E-mail:
Marie Smith
(01449) 727240
(01449) 721946
TSM/IND31/2005
Marie.smith@midsuffolk.gov.uk
<date>
Dear Parish Clerk
Monitoring the provision of facilities in Mid Suffolk
Mid Suffolk District Council are currently updating the provision of rural services within
each parish of Mid Suffolk.
I would be grateful if you could complete the table below, indicating the current
availability of ‘village’ facilities, which are present in your parish.
Parish:…………………………..
Facility
Food or general store
Post office
Post office & general store together
Public house
Meeting place e.g. Village Hall
Primary schools
Petrol Station
Other, please specify
Number available
The figures will provide an indication of the state of services and facilities within rural
areas.
Please return the completed table to me as soon as possible and no later than the 14 th
November 2005. If you have any queries or would prefer inform me via telephone or
email, please contact me on the above number or email.
I thank you in advance for your co-operation.
Marie Smith
Planning Policy Officer
16
APPENDIX: A.2
Parish
2001
Census
Pop
Food &
General
Shop
Post
Offices
General
Shop and
Post Office
Public
Houses
Meeting
Places
Primary
Schools
Akenham
Ashbocking
Ashfield Cum
Thorpe
Aspall
Athelington
Bacton
Badley
53
318
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Petrol
Station
0
0
187
52
23
1227
79
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
4
0
Badwell Ash
Barham
Barking
Battisford
Bayhlam
Bedfield
685
1377
440
482
251
298
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
2
3
2
2
1
4
Bedingfield
Beyton
223
656
0
1 pt
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
0
0
2
3
Botesdale
635
61
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
4
0
Bramford
Brome
Brundish
2386
432
192
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
3
1
1
1
0
0
8
2
2
Other
Church
Crockery barn & cafe
church
0
Church
Doctors 1+ Middle School 1
0
Fish and Chip Shop +
Coffee Bar
Doctors Surgery
Car repair garage 1
2 Churches
0
Pavillion & chapel
0
Garage
Florist, Pet Groomer,
hairdressers, Fish and Chip
shop, and Chinese
Takeaway.
0
Newsagent, chemist, fish +
chips shop
Hotel
0
17
Burgate
Buxhall
162
426
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
2
Claydon
1912
2
0
1
2
2
1
8
Coddenham
Combs
Cotton
Creeting St Mary
Creeting St Peter
Crowfield
Debenham
Denham
Drinkstone
Earl Stonham
521
966
490
673
245
329
1874
182
494
637
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
1
3
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
2
0
0
0
3
1
2
3
1
2
13
2
1
2
Elmswell
Eye
Felsham
Finningham
Flowton
Framsden
3359
2000
417
409
103
299
2
1
0
2
4
1
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
3
1
1
2
Fressingfield
Gedding
Gipping
983
118
72
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
4
0
1
0
craft shop & playing field
Travel agents, hair dressers
& Estate agents
travel lodge, little chef +
Country Club
Church + Chapel
farm shop
0
Nursery (Garden)
Fire Station, chip shop,
Police Station, Chinese
Takeaway, estate agent,
library, electrical organ
retailer, travel agent,
agricultural and hardwear
retail, hairdressers,
childrens nursery, flower
shop, petfood, vet, railway
station
0
Telephone box, letter box
Sports and Social club with
facilities
0
18
Gislingham
Gosbeck
Great Ashfield
Great
Blackenham
Great Bricett
Great Finborough
Harleston
878
218
324
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
3
1
2
1083
1193
755
150
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
2
3
4
0
Mellis
Menham
Mendlesham
Metfield
1710
147
207
546
487
335
303
813
148
165
85
872
278
51
417
431
1328
342
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1 pt
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
5
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
1
0
6
2
1
3
2
3
1
6
0
1
0
5
1
0
3
3
9
3
Mickfield
Monk Soham
Neettlestead
188
160
98
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
Norton
787
0
0
1
1
1
1
4
Haughley
Helmingham
Hemingstone
Henley
Hessett
Hinderclay
Horham
Hoxne
Hunston
Kenton
Langham
Laxfield
Little Blackenham
Antique Shop
Church
cemetery, church,
allotments, regular bus
service
0
0
Bakers, Vet practise +
restaurant
Egg shop
0
1 shop & car workshop
0
0
0
0
0
Mobile Library and local
deliveries - fish etc
0
3 Churches + Pre-School
19
Occold
Oakley
Offton and
Willisham
490
?
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
3
1
356
0
0
0
1
1
0
2
Old Newton
Onehouse
Palgrave
Pettaugh
Rattlesden
Redgrave
Redlingfield
Rickinghall
Ringshall
Rishangles
Shelland
995
947
777
202
811
553
110
1181
619
84
39
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
2
1
0
3
0
0
0
4
2
1
1
1
2
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
7
3
2
2
5
3
0
9
2
0
0
Somersham
Southolt
Stoke Ash
713
68
214
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
1
4
0
5
Stonham Aspal
Stonham Parva
Stowlangtoft
542
315
246
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
3
4
1
Stowupland
1962
2
3
1
7
Stradbroke
Stuston
1221
170
3
0
3
0
1
0
11
0
1
3
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
Bowls Club, Playing field,
football pitch, recycling
facilities, childrens play area
0
Car dealership
0
0
0
2 churches, 1 recreation
ground + 1 sport pavillion
Chapel,
recreation/playground
0
Chinease take away, fish
and chip shop, butchers
Swim Pool Library High Sch
(11-16) 2 churches Health
centre Fish and Chips
Community Centre, Estate
Agents, Business Enterprise
College,
?
20
Syleham
Tannington
Thorndon
Thornham Magna
Thornham Parva
Thrandeston
Thurston
Thwaite
183
107
571
116
49
134
3166
132
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
2
1
1
0
1
1
0
1
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
4
2
0
1
9
1
Tostock
Walsham-le
Willows
Wattisfield
Westhorpe
414
0
0
0
1
1
0
2
1122
436
208
1
0
0
1
1 pt
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
2
1
1
1
0
0
7
2
1
Wetherden
Wetheringsett
Weybread
Whitton
Wickham Skeith
Wilby
Willisham
Wingfield
Winston
557
627
392
105
300
231
268
318
150
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
3
2
2
0
1
2
0
2
1
Woolpit
1968
2
1
0
2
3
1
9
Fruit & Veg store
0
0
Play area, Tennis, football
etc
2 Hair dressers, wine shop
and builders merchants
Recreation/Playing field
0
playing fields, childrens fac,
tennis court (in great
disrepair)
0
0
0
Health centre, dentist,
estate agent, garden
nursery, antique shop,
dress maker, bakery, fish
and chip shop, hairdressers,
butchers, farmshop,
tearoom, gift shop, car sales
service and garage
21
Worlingworth
Wortham
Wyverstone
Yaxley
Total
671
637
382
426
67512
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
0
0
3
5
1
5
Motor repair garage + MOT
testing centre
Sports Pavilion
0
22
Appendix B.1: Letter to Parish Council’s requesting further information and Validation of
previous work
PLANNING POLICY
Please ask for:
Direct line:
Fax number:
Your reference:
Our reference:
E-Mail:
Peter Freer
01449 724852
01449 721946
MSDC/CSPO
planningpolicy@midsuffolk.gov.uk
21st May 2007
Dear Parish Clerk,
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK – REGULATION 26 - CORE STRATEGY PREFERRED
OPTIONS
Enclosures:





Core Strategy Preferred Options Development Strategy Chapter
Statement of the Proposal Matters
Core Strategy Preferred Options Summary Leaflet
Table of Village Services - 2006
Response Form
Introduction:
The Core Strategy is a key document in Mid Suffolk’s Local Development Framework and sets out a
spatial vision, objectives, development strategy and core policies for the future development of the
district. The Preferred Options document has been produced under Regulation 26 of the Town and
Country Planning (Local Development)(England) Regulations 2004.
Your views are requested…
Whilst we would like your comments on the whole document, we have enclosed the Development
Strategy chapter from the Preferred Options document along with a summary leaflet, as we would
particularly like your comments and advice on its contents.
The Development Strategy sets out the council's preferred options for the distribution and scale of
development amongst the towns and villages and the strategic location of housing and other
development. It includes Mid Suffolk’s proposed settlement hierarchy, defining settlements as Towns,
Key Service Centres, Primary Villages, Secondary Villages or the Countryside, along with their related
levels of growth.
The position of your parish within the hierarchy has been determined by reference to criteria based on
number of services, location and population size.
We would appreciate your comments on:
a) the criteria used to define your settlement;
b) the level that your parish has been defined in the hierarchy.
We would also appreciate details of significant employers in your parish because the
availability of local employment is one of the criteria for determining settlement hierarchy and
it is important to have the most up to date information.
Making your response to the Development Strategy chapter…
Please use the enclosed response form to notify us of your comments on the Development
Strategy, returning the completed form to the address on the reverse.
23
Making your response to the whole document…
We are not sending out a full paper document due to Government regulation and
environmental issues. If you would like to see the entire document, we encourage you to
use the online version as it is how the document was intended to be viewed.
The online paper is:
 in colour;
 interactive;
 convenient;
 does not need to be downloaded first;
 set up so that you can make comments instantly.
If however viewing the document online is not suitable for your needs and you would like a
hard copy please contact us and we will either arrange for one to be collected or posted to
you. We would still encourage you to submit your comments online once you have looked
through the hardcopy. If you do not have access to the online version please fill out a
response form. If possible please send an electronic copy of your responses, as all
comments have to be submitted on to the online version as required by the Secretary of
State. This also reduces costs and speeds up the production of these documents.
To use our online consultation system go to:
http://consultation.limehouse.co.uk/midsuffolk (please note if you have not responded
previously online you will not have received your login details and you will not be able to
logon). To register your details or if you have forgotten your login details please inform us of
your e-mail address and you will be sent your username and password by e-mail.
Filling in a representation form in response to the questions posed throughout the
document. You can respond to as many questions as you want. You may also make
general suggestions about any information that we may have overlooked, or highlight
alternative options for the Core Strategy. Please send this form either by post or email to the
addresses on the reverse of the form.
Consultation deadline:
The Preferred Options paper is currently out for consultation and comments received on this
document will feed into the production of the Core Strategy, which will be submitted to the
Secretary of State later this year.
Your responses to the Core Strategy Preferred Options consultation must be received
by Monday 2nd July 2007 (5 pm).
Stephen Andrews
Planning Policy Lead Officer
24
Appendix B.2: Consultation response summaries to Settlement Hierarchy
No
1
Item
4.18
2
4.19
3
4.36
4
4.37
5
4.39
6
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
ID/Name
178
Mrs. P. Fuller
(Clerk to Woolpit
Parish Council)
1969
Mrs Ann Kerr
(Stradbroke
Parish Council)
1980
Merlin Carr
(Eye Town
Council)
1969
Mrs Ann Kerr
(Stradbroke
Parish Council)
ID/Type
2225
Support with
conditions
Summary
If Woolpit retains its status as a Key Service Centre,
additional development, both residential and
business will have to be kept to a minimum.
1650
Support with
conditions
We welcome any plans that reduce car travel and
commuting but job opportunities in Stradbroke are
limited and many residents travel outside the village
for work.
Special Landscape Areas need to be protected.
Housing to be located on higher ground to the north.
339
Mrs. Lisa Long
(Clerk to
Wortham &
Burgate Parish
Council)
220
Mr Mark
Westwood
(Mark Westwood
Ltd.)
1839
Object
2230
Observations
1651
Object
1632
Object
We accept the proposals for a settlement hierarchy
and note that Stradbroke is classified as a Key
Service Centre. We are most anxious to see more
affordable homes built to serve the needs of local
young people.
Three separate opinion surveys, in 2001, 2003 and
2004, revealed only one commonly agreed
development need - affordable housing. There was
strong opposition to any major development and
resistance to further large executive homes.
Stonham Aspal should be higher up on the
hierarchy. The village is on the main A1120 coastal
route, well positioned, has good access to
employment opportunities and it has a very
significant range of shops at Stonham Barns, which
are within easy walking distance of the village.
Response
This would be more
appropriately addressed
through Site Specific
Allocations.
Noted. Policies are included
indicating that travel by private
car will be discouraged.
Noted, Policies are included in
the Core Strategy to safeguard
the natural environment and in
particular certain landscapes.
Noted. Policies are included to
encourage the provision of
affordable housing.
Noted. Policies are included to
encourage the provision of
affordable housing
Noted and where appropriate
changes will be made to the
service table. However,
Stonham Aspal does not
qualify according to the criteria
to move higher in the
settlement hierarchy. No
change to policy. The village
retains its current status
26
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
7
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2030
Unknown 6
1635
Observations
8
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1969
Mrs Ann Kerr
(Stradbroke
Parish Council)
1652
Object
9
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2031
Mr Tim H W
Passmore
(Councillor Mid
Suffolk District
Council)
1656
Object
10
Core
Strategy
2035
Mrs Daphne
1661
Object
Summary
Response
Secondary Village. Stonham
Barns is a tourism-based
development no convenience
shops exist.
There has not been a post office in Harleston for at
Noted. Changes will be made
least 4 years. The village has three mobile shops
to the service table where
including a fish and chips shop, a butchers van and a appropriate. Amendment to
library.
Evidence base. No change to
settlement hierarchy.
Stradbroke meets most of the criteria but there are
Generally Stradbroke has a
limited employment opportunities and infrequent
good level of services
public transport links to higher order settlements.
although it might not have all
We note that we only just meet the size criteria but
the full range of services and
accept that Stradbroke has traditionally been a hub
therefore it is identified as a
for surrounding areas and we are in a more remote
Key Service Centre. No
part of the district. However, although not
change to Settlement
acknowledged in the consultation both Diss and
Hierarchy. Further details
Harleston are used by residents particularly for retail such as the need for size and
shopping and access to banks and other
scale of future development (if
professional services.
any) will be considered in the
Site Specific Allocation.
Thwaite, does have a school that is located midway
Noted, however there is no
between Thwaite and Stoke Ash, a meeting room/
footpath along the road from
village hall, a pub, a mobile play bus, and a good bus Thwaite to the school. In
service to Ipswich and Diss every other hour.
addition Thwaite is smaller
Thwaite should be upgraded.
than Stoke Ash and Stoke Ash
has better levels of service
than Thwaite. Therefore it is
not considered that Thwaite
should be upgraded to a
secondary village. No
change.
Do not agree with the classification of Drinkstone
Drinkstone was identified as
within the settlement hierarchy. It is not clear what
countryside based on the
27
No
Item
CS 1
Towns:
ID/Name
Youngs
ID/Type
11
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2036
Hutchin
1662
Observations
12
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1075
Mr. R. D. Martin
1681
Observations
I do hope the settlement boundary in Thurston will be
changed and enlarged for further development
towards the Bayton end of the parish.
Long Thurlow is specifically
excluded from the settlement
boundary since it is a
considerable distance and
does not relate well to the
services in Badwell Ash. Any
residential development or
allocations would be
unsustainable.
The settlement boundary will
be considered during Site
Specific Allocation.
1996
Ms Laura
Atkinson
(RPS Planning
and Development
Ltd)
1734
Object
Core
Strategy
470
Mrs. B. Goodchild
1741
Support with
Provision should be made for meeting local housing
needs in ‘Primary Villages’ and development should
be located in villages rather than just towns. Old
Newton, have a range of services and facilities to
support growth (including school, church (both in
close proximity to our client’s site), chapel, village
hall, playing fields and shops). Not all development
will be able to take place on brownfield sites, and
therefore it will be necessary to develop some
greenfield sites.
Rattlesden Parish Council accepts its designation as
a primary village, subject to local need be clearly
Agree. Provision has been
made for accommodating local
needs in primary villages.
Policy seeks to develop
according to local housing
need. In addition the preferred
options recognises the need
for lower brownfield targets in
Mid Suffolk. No change
required.
Agree. Parish Plans and
Village Design Statement will
13
14
Summary
developments will be permitted in larger centres,
apart from housing for local needs. Locating traveller
sites in the countryside would contradict the policy of
encouraging developments close to centres of
services and employment, reducing commuting. Do
not agree with the list of permitted developments in
the countryside as this will harm the environment,
have adverse impact on communities and traffic and
would be contrary to objectives SO1, SO2 and SO3.
Long Thurlow is Badwell Ash and therefore is a
Primary Village.
Response
identified criteria as specified
in the Settlement Hierarchy of
the Preferred Options.
28
No
Item
CS 1
Towns:
ID/Name
(Clerk to
Rattlesden Parish
Council)
ID/Type
conditions
15
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
440
Mrs. C. Lee
(Clerk to
Bramford Parish
Council)
1836
Object
Summary
defined and the Village Design Statement and the
views of the parish council should be given due
weight both in the land bids process and in individual
planning applications.
Rattlesden has no petrol station, nearly all the phone
boxes are non-operational, it has only one public
recreation ground (not three), the bus service is very
limited and has no significant local employers (small
businesses, people working from home, local farms
and the two pubs also employ local people).
By choosing all of Bramford, Blakenham and
Claydon as Key Service Centre this will create three
adjacent key centres that would inevitably grow
together to form an urban sprawl. Some of the
facilities and services no longer exist or are under
threat. However, a general expansion of facilities in
Bramford would further detract from the village
status, and is unnecessary, since Ipswich has all
facilities and there is a regular bus service. There is
no significant local employment opportunity.
Bramford is reliant on Claydon for a secondary
school. If Bramford expands significantly, Claydon
School may also have to expand along with
Bramford Primary School. Doctors and dentists may
wish to set up a practice in the proposed mixed
residential and commercial development at Paper
Mill Lane, but there is no plan for this within the
proposed small shopping units.
It should be noted that the village is in three distinct
geographically separated parts and Bramford Tye
has been overlooked in the document. It is wholly
rural in character and should be included in the
“countryside” list. Main Bramford village has a
historic core and is semi-rural in character. The
Response
be used as background
evidence to help determine
suitability of sites for
development in the Site
Specific Allocations
Development Plan Document.
No Change
Individually they are not
classified as Key Service
Centre but collectively they
qualify. They are also located
within the Ipswich Policy Area
and therefore there is
additional need for a Key
Service Centre and allocation
requirement. Identifying all of
these centres would not
necessarily lead to urban
sprawl, it is considered that
the future development will be
best plan through a holistic
view of all three centres.
However, scale and level of
development as well as
settlement boundaries this will
be more appropriately
addressed in Site Specific
Allocations.
29
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
16
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
339
Mrs. Lisa Long
(Clerk to
Wortham &
Burgate Parish
Council);
1837
Object
Summary
village has a substantial area of water meadow /
flood plain and lies in the Gipping Valley. Any
development along this route could have serious
effects on future flooding and would also spoil a
pleasant amenity area used by locals and local town
dwellers alike. The individual characteristics of
Paper Mill Lane area and the main Bramford village
should be appreciated, respected and enhanced.
Bramford has a Parish Plan and a Village Design
Statement for information and guidance. The
location of development in Bramford should take into
account existing traffic and proposed traffic from
proposed developments in Great Blakenham,
Sproughton and Blakenham Park.
Wortham and Burgate Parish Council strongly
opposes the classification of Wortham as a Primary
Village in the Settlement Hierarchy for the reasons
given below. The evidence-base used to determine
an appropriate hierarchy position for Wortham is
significantly out of date. Wortham only has one
permanent shop that is under threat as it is
associated with the Post Office and both are likely to
close when the Post Office Consultation is
completed. The food sold in the shop is very limited
and residents rely on larger food shops in Eye,
Botesdale and Diss. Twelve recreation areas are
shown but we can only account for eight. (Four
commons, one playing field, one bowling green, one
children’s playground and one tennis court). In
Wortham, a Petrol Station/Service Garage and a
Fish & Chip shop have both closed. The Parish
Council and the community, as evidenced by three
separate surveys, are strongly opposed to the
Primary Village classification. We believe that
Response
Amend Evidence Base in
accordance with the
comments received. In
accordance with the
responses it is proposed that
the position of Wortham in the
Settlement Hierarchy be
amended from primary village
to secondary village.
30
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
17
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2046
Mr Geoffrey
Robinson
(Worlingworth
Parish Council)
2043
Support with
conditions
18
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1446
Mrs. H. Butler
(Clerk to
Botesdale Parish
Council)
2044
Support
Summary
Wortham should be designated as a Secondary
Village because of the absence of qualifying facilities
and in order to protect and preserve many unique
features.
Re: a) criteria used to define the settlement of
Worlingworth (95b Shop Street), the pub closed, 2
recycling paperbanks and 3 bottle banks are at the
community centre, only one mobile shop is present,
only two recreation areas and a bus service only
once a week and only once on that day.
Re: b) the level that the parish has been defined in
the hierarchy
Worlingworth Parish Council is broadly in agreement
with (a) Worlingworth (95b Shop Street) classified as
a Secondary village (b) Worlingworth (95a Church,
Church Road) classified as Countryside. However,
the Development Strategy chapter can go further,
with respect to Worlingworth, by removing the
settlement boundary around the Mill Road area on
“95b Shop Street”. One of our two major employers
in the parish, Igrox Ltd (pest control), has relocated
its office and employees to Great Blakenham. This
leaves Worlingworth with Tuckwell’s (Farm
Machinery) as the only major employer and, indeed,
their operations are spread evenly at bases across
South Suffolk and North Essex. This further reduces
the opportunities for local employment in
Worlingworth.
Botesdale Parish Council has the following
comments:
a) The criteria used to define the settlements are, if
taken in context with the facilities available in
Rickinghall, a reasonable representation of the
services available locally. There is no petrol filling
Response
Amend Evidence base
accordingly.
Settlement boundaries will be
reviewed as part of the Site
Specific Allocation process.
No change to Settlement
Hierarchy. The position of the
Hierarchy supports Parish
Plan.
Noted. Amend Evidence Base
accordingly.
Agree with settlement
hierarchy – no change.
31
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
19
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
338
Mrs. H. Butler
(Clerk to Yaxley
Parish Council)
2045
Object
20
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
337
Mrs. H. Butler
(Clerk to
Rickinghall
Inferior and
Rickinghall
Superior Parish
Councils)
2048
Support with
conditions
Summary
station in any of the parishes.
b) Botesdale Parish Council has no objection to
Botesdale and Rickinghall defined as Key Service
Centre.
c) There are no significant employers within the
immediate area. Local employers would generally be
of an agricultural/horticultural nature, small
businesses and local shops.
Having considered the information supplied Yaxley
Parish Council would comment as follows:
The services and facilities described in the Strategy
appear to fairly represent those available in the
Parish. The child group is in the neighbouring village
of Mellis (Yaxley & Mellis Pre school).
b) The Parish Council strongly feels that Yaxley
should be defined as a ‘Secondary Village’, in
preference to countryside, and that a settlement
boundary that will allow the village to evolve in a
controlled manner is desirable.
c) The Eye Airfield Industrial site offers a reasonable
level of employment within close proximity to Yaxley.
Having considered the information supplied
Rickinghall Parish Council would comment as
follows:
a) The services and facilities described in the
Strategy appear to fairly represent those available to
the Parish.
b) The Council decision was that the status ‘Key
Service Centre’ within the hierarchy was acceptable
providing that the area retained its ‘Conservation
Area’ status and that development would be of a
density and style in keeping with the area.
Furthermore it was noted that the current policies
which allow new dwellings to be crammed into
Response
Amend Evidence Base
accordingly. Amendment to
settlement hierarchy – from
countryside village to
secondary village status.
Noted. The Conservation
Areas will remain as it is at
present and will be reviewed
as part of the heritage
legislation and process.
Policies will be included in
Generic Development Control
Policies to ensure that
development are appropriate
and conserve the setting of
conservation areas.
Development Control Policies
will include policies ensuring
32
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
21
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1297
Mr. J. C.
Hitchcock
2051
Object
22
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1441
Mr. J. H. Bean
(Clerk to Bacton
Parish Council)
2061
Support
Summary
garden space are causing considerable problems
with on street parking and that serious consideration
should be given to this problem if the villages are to
be designated as a Key Service Centre.
c) The parishes (Rickinghall Inferior/Superior &
Botesdale) have no significant employers.
Ringshall offers more than some of the villages
above it with particular preference to: Services - the
very active school in a location near to the village
hall creates a real focus point for the village. Both
are exceptional services that must not be left for an
idle population and potential demise. Access- the
village is served off the B1087 and can easily access
Needham Market, Stowmarket, A14 and Ipswich.
Enhance and keep alive the active villages.
The parish council fully support that Bacton should
be considered as a key centre. There is now only
one point where one is able to purchase petrol. We
have 3 public notice boards. Football Pitches and
play area on St Marys Playing field, Meeting places
and recreation uses include the Scout Hut, the
village hall, the bowls club & clubhouse, the tennis
club and cricket club using facilities at Middle school
(should be conserved for this use), the Primary
School and the church. The local football club have
permission and are about to start developing land at
Broad Road for more football pitches and clubhouse
h)The active football club use the football pitch at
primary school and also a privately owned pitch on
Rectory Road. i) There is a children’s play area in
Response
that sufficient parking are
provided and that design are
appropriate including impacts
on amenity, etc. No change to
evidence base. No change to
settlement hierarchy.
Existing services
acknowledged in table of
services. Although it is
indicated that there is a shop
and post office it is actually a
mile away and is part of
Wattisham Airfield - it is not
within walking distance and
there is no footway along the
road. The village is supported
by Wattisham airbase. No
change to settlement
hierarchy.
Amend Evidence Base
accordingly.
Agree. No change to
settlement hierarchy
33
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
23
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
271
Mrs. J. Orves
(Clerk to
Redgrave Parish
Council)
2070
Object
Summary
Birch Avenue. There are regular bus services 6
days a week. There are very useful for shoppers but
not very convenient if you need to use them for office
hours. The surgery is now a permanent building
recently developed to replace very small surgery at
Tailors Green. Regarding local jobs, the form only
mentions three namely Schools, Blacks and Jeffries.
The parish council request that you note there are
many more places of employment in the parish and
these are listed below: D Black & Sons, Red House
Farm, Jefferies Garage & Bacton Bears, Primary and
middle schools, Old Peoples residential home at The
Manor, Church Road, The Bull Inn (meals provided),
Church Road, Lamberts Garage, Shop Green, The
Village Stores and Post Offices, Shop Green, Jollys
Transport, Coppings Corner. Wheatley Associates
Software, Broad Road, Electrical Services, (R
Davies) Cow Green, Potash Nurseries, Broad Road,
Kerrys Pine Furniture, Kerrys Lane, off Cow Green
Portable Space, Industrial Site, Red House Farm
Wood Bee Design, Industrial Site, Red House Farm
PDH Electrical, Cedar Close Surgery & Health
Centre, Church Road Finbows Yard, Station Road
furniture & carpets J Lawes, Hardware, Finbows
Yard, Station Road Probitts Wood Yard, Finbows
Yard E & D Boilers, Finbows Yard Mobility Service,
Finbows Yard Candle Man, Finbows Yard, D
Aitken, Electronical Goods, Finbows Yard
Traditional Brickwork Ltd, Bacton Hall Farm.
Redgrave should be classified as a "primary village".
Having a primary school and a convenience shop
were suggested as criteria for achieving
development with minimised vehicular traffic. MSDC
and SCC should use the same distance criterion for
Response
Amend evidence base (parish
profile) accordingly. Amend
settlement hierarchy –
Redgrave from countryside
village to secondary village as
34
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
24
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
200
Mrs. S. Rose
(Clerk to
Drinkstone Parish
Council)
2072
Object
Summary
an acceptable walking distance. Acceptable walking
distance is the intended criterion of Central
Government since their objective is more
development but minimising the traffic effect of future
developments. For MSDC that means that since the
nearest primary school and shops are on average
1.5 miles from Redgrave residents, minimum 1/4
mile and maximum 2 miles, Redgrave has that
primary school and those shops. It is therefore quite
clearly the Government intention and the Parish
Council's intention that Redgrave should be
classified as a Primary village and certainly not as
Countryside. Another reason that Redgrave has a
primary school is that it was built as a resource of
Redgrave, Botesdale and Rickinghalls equidistant
from the furthest points of those parishes.
A community shop will open in September.
Additionally Redgrave has within its parish boundary
within official walking distance to all of its residents a
pub, 213 jobs, 50 listed buildings, recently extended
village hall, 4 public open spaces, sports centre, 2
play areas, nationally important church, SSSI
Redgrave Fen, and that community shop due to
open in September.
The Parish councillors of Drinkstone are pleased that
Drinkstone has been classified as a village in the
countryside. The Councillors are happy for
Drinkstone to retain its own identity and not to be
"merged" with either Rattlesden or Woolpit. We
understand that by being classed as "countryside"
certain limitations need to be in place in order to
maintain the nature of the village and the area.
However, concerns were expressed over your
inclusion of sites for gypsies and travellers within the
Response
the residents commutes to
outside shops and school and
has a relatively low population.
However it would gain a new
shop in September and
therefore has sufficient
facilities to be considered a
Secondary Village.
Agree. No change to evidence
base
Agree. No change to
settlement hierarchy
This is in accordance with
Government Guidance and
Circular 01/2006.
35
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
25
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
206
Mr. Mike Shave
2077
Object
Summary
permitted development for the countryside. We are
unable to understand your logic and feel that these
sites should be located nearer to urban areas (like
Stowmarket) where there are facilities to cater for
their needs i.e. - shops, health centres, schools,
employment etc. Drinkstone has none of these
facilities or the infrastructure to cope with such
developments. The only access to the village is
along narrow country lanes. To locate traveller sites
in countryside areas appears to contradict your
policy of encouraging developments closer to
centres of services and employment.
Old Newton Parish Council is dissappointed to learn
that the proposals/ classifications have changed
somewhat since the land bids were made by the
Parish Council a few years ago. At that time Old
Newton Parish Council supported two pockets of
land, which in their opinion was sufficient to take the
village forward, and to make it sustainable. It was
then the view of the Parish Council that growth would
enable the village to continue to prosper. The same
situation remains the ideal to this day. The two areas
of land supported at that time would require phasing,
but would at the same time show the way forward.
Paragraph 4.18 identifies the three criteria,
prosperous, access to services and with our
objectives, a better heritage for future generations...
Paragraph 4.39 refers to primary villages and Key
Service Centres. Old Newton has the following:
Shop and post office - servicing part of Bacton,
Cotton, Gipping and Old Newton. Village Primary
School, currently over subscribed. Public House and
Social Club. 220 person Capacity Village Hall. 14
Acre Playing Field. Approx. 100 jobs, mainly
Response
Amend evidence base.
Disagree. Old Newton is close
to Haughley, which contain
more services and double the
population. There is no need
to therefore classify Old
Newton as a Key Service
Centre.
Locational factors of Bacton
were considered for instance
that it is located in the centre
of the District with a particular
need for housing in the centre
and north of the District.
36
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
26
Core
2072
2080
Summary
services and a small amount of manufacturing. 7
day per week Good Bus Services - Stowmarket to
Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket to Diss, Service to
Ipswich
2.5 miles from Stowmarket Railway Station. 2 miles
from access to A14. Medicine delivery service from
Mendlesham and Stowmarket. Population similar to
that of other villages. There is no problem with
future housing for Local People as part of a planned
development. Ten working Farms. Active Church
with their own meeting hall. Active Methodist Chapel
with their own hall includes youth groups.
Organisations include: Two Football Clubs (five
teams), Bowls, Carpet Bowls, Indoor Purcuits include
Ballroom dancing, classes, line dancing classes,
bingo sessions, cake decorating classes, the four
above attract people from other villages. It has its
Parish Magazine, Recycling Banks, Old Newton has
been identified as a Primary Village. In comparison
Bacton has only a small Village Hall. Has no Public
Playing Field other than rented Church Land. Has
only a Stowmarket to Diss bus service plus a
skeleton service to Bury. Some 6 miles from Railway
Station. 4 miles to the A14...Bacton is identified as a
Key Service Centre. It is not our wish to bring Bacton
back in its classification but submit that Old Newton
should be afforded equal status to Bacton, and
promoted as Key Service Centre. Its close proximity
to Stowmarket makes it a very popular village to
developers and agents, and is more than capable of
being extended over the period of the plan. Neither
Haughley nor Stowupland have better Primary
Health Care.
The settlement hierarchy should be re-focussed to:
Response
This is acknowledged through
37
No
27
Item
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
ID/Name
Mr. Matt Lally
(Matrix
Partnership Ltd.)
1999
Mr J Peecock
(Peecock Short
Property
Solutions)
ID/Type
Object
2101
Object
Summary
- recognise that Stowmarket is the first order town;
- identify Needham Market as a second order town;
- concentrate on fewer sustainable settlements
identified as Key Service Centres. This would include
Thurston in recognition of its sustainability and
locational credentials and the reality of Thurston’s
close social and economic association with Bury St
Edmunds, an RSS - designated Key Regional Centre
for Development and Change.
- transfer several of the less populous and
sustainable settlements erroneously described as
‘Key Service Centres’ into a larger grouping of
‘Primary Villages’
Core Strategy CS1 within the document identifying
Claydon (with part Barham) and Great Blakenham as
a key service centre. In other parts of the document,
Barham is referred to as a village within the
countryside and notes that the area around Sandy
Response
the housing allocations and
distributions were most
housing are focussed towards
Stowmarket and then
Needham Market and
thereafter Eye. The Key
Service Centres identified
have the range of services and
facilities and will therefore be
the focus for development
outside of towns.
Development will not happen
necessarily in all the Key
Service Centres but more
details regarding this will be
provided in the Site Specific
Allocations.
It is not agreed that the Key
Service Centre should be
reduced. Do not reduce the
number of Key Service Centre.
The Council is responding to
the rural nature and large
geographical nature of Mid
Suffolk and therefore providing
a sensible distribution of
residential growth. No change
to settlement hierarchy.
Settlement boundaries will be
reviewed as part of the Local
Plan process and this will
more appropriately indicate
which areas are included
38
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
Summary
Lane, which was an inset under the extant Local
Plan, is to be deleted. Why cannot those parts of
Barham village, which are not to become part of the
countryside be identified so as to bring clarity and
enable proper consultation to be completed?
Settlement boundaries should be reviewed through a
robust process. Reference to “small- scale housing
growth” and “small scale housing growth for local
needs”. These needs to be defined and the policy
should clearly state what is acceptable.
We take the view that by adopting a settlement
hierarchy which excludes any future possible growth
within 75 villages within the Mid Suffolk District
clearly fails to meet the needs of the district. We
promote the retention and extension of settlement
boundaries throughout the district to enable further
minor increases in dwellings. This ignores
community needs and will result in the decline of
existing facilities and services.
Barham (Sandy Lane) is to be specifically deleted as
a village for growth and moved into the countryside.
The inference is presumably, that there are parts of
Barham, which are presently located within the
countryside, which will be brought within the new
identified key service centre (Core Strategy CS1)?
Barham (Sandy Lane Inset Area) have experienced
significant growth in the last couple of years and are
accessible to a range of services. It cannot be a
proper measure of sustainability to say that some
parts of Claydon, which are situated at the extremity
of its settlement boundary are by definition
sustainable whilst those people living closer to shops
and services exist and will exist in the future in a
non-sustainable location even though they are
Response
within the settlement
boundary. Barham has been
grouped with Claydon and
Gt.Blakenham to form a Key
Service Centre.
Sandy Lanes is approx 1 mile
away from Barham and
contain no services or
facilities. It is not considered
appropriate to include such a
hamlet a Key Service Centre.
The level of acceptable
development will vary between
a primary or secondary village.
Local need will be defined in
the Development Control
Policies and Site Specific
Allocations however the Core
Strategy states that Local
needs may include
employment, amenity and
community facilities as well as
housing and may be identified
through annual monitoring and
in locally generated
documents such as parish
plans or local needs surveys.
39
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
28
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
247
Mr. A. Catchpole
(Clerk to Badwell
Ash Parish
Council)
2122
Object
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2159
Object
29
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
Summary
closer! At least in this locality there does not appear
to have been any genuine spatial awareness
underlying the formulation of policy and this clearly
cannot be acceptable.
Badwell Ash Parish Council is happy with the
position of the parish within the hierarchy and the
criteria used as far as the village of Badwell Ash,
excluding Long Thurlow.
However, regarding Long Thurlow the Council do not
agree with the option of doing away with the
settlement boundaries of smaller villages
surrounding Badwell Ash itself. The Council would
like to see the current settlement boundaries remain
and feels that to effectively prevent any further
development of these villages, Badwell Ash itself
would have to be overburdened with expansion and
development - overloading the already stretched
amenities.
Badwell Ash and the surrounding villages are
interdependent with each other and one cannot
expand over all the others. Furthermore, to prevent,
even modest expansion in neighbouring villages will
have a detrimental effect on these small
communities which will eventually lead to their
stagnation and become even more "dormitory"
villages than now.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we would
question the identification of Tostock as a Secondary
village, when the range of services it offers and its
Response
Agree. No change to
settlement hierarchy for Bad
well Ash.
Disagree. Long Thurlow is
specifically excluded from the
settlement boundary since it is
a considerable distance and
does not relate well to the
services in Badwell Ash. The
RSS, Government Office (GOEast) and various Inspectors’
reports advises against
dispersed development at
small villages with little or no
services. In order for the Core
Strategy to be found sound
this is the approach that would
need to be taken.
Note the agreement with
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Disagree. Tostock is
surrounded by Key Service
Centre. The village has a
small population with few
services. It does not warrant
Primary Village status.
40
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
30
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2160
Object
31
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2161
Object
32
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2166
Object
Summary
location in the District would justify a status as at
least a Primary village. We would ask that this status
be reviewed.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we object
to the proposed status of Framsden as a village with
no settlement boundary.
Response
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we would
question the identification of Norton as a Primary
village, when the range of services it offers and its
location in the District would justify a status as a Key
Service Centre. We would ask that this status be
reviewed.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we would
question the identification of Felsham as a
Secondary village, when the range of services it
offers and its location in the District would justify a
status as at least a Primary village. We would ask
Note the agreement with
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Disagree. Not sufficient
services and facilities for a
Key Service Centre
classification. Less facilities
and worse access than larger
nearby settlements at
Elmswell and Thurston or
Ixworth out of District - so not
Key Service Centre.
Note the agreement with
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Small population, not sufficient
services and villages for
Primary village General Store,
but no school. Despite quite
remote location lots services.
Satellite of Rattlesden/Woolpit.
No change.
Note the agreement with
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Disagree. Low population, no
services, hamlet dependant on
Debenham/Framlingham even
Ipswich. School is in
Helmingham parish and
located well outside village on
difficult road.
41
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
33
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2167
Object
34
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2168
Object
35
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2169
Object
Summary
that this status be reviewed.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we would
question the identification of Pettaugh as a
Secondary village, when the range of services it
offers and its location in the District would justify a
status as at least a Primary village. We would ask
that this status be reviewed.
Response
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we would
question the lack of inclusion of Woolpit Green as
part of the Woolpit Key Service Centre. We would
ask that this status is reviewed, and object to the
proposed status as a village with no settlement
boundary.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we would
question the identification of Somersham as a
Primary village, when the range of services it offers
and its location in the District would justify a status
as a Key Service Centre. We would ask that this
Note the agreement with
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Disagree. Low population, no
services, hamlet dependant on
Woolpit main centre. Would
not wish to see the merging of
Woolpit green with Woolpit.
Woolpit green remains as
countryside village
classification.
Note the agreement with
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Small population, Not
sufficient services and villages
for Primary village. Parish
Council disagree with
designation and would like to
be ‘countryside village’, this
would be the Council’s
preference. Dependant on
tourist route for trade.
Note the agreement with
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Disagree. Close proximity to
Ipswich and other KCS.
Smaller population and fewer
services than of the
designated Key Service
Centre. Retain as Primary
village.
42
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
36
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2170
Object
37
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2171
Object
38
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2172
Object
39
Core
2071
2173
Summary
status be reviewed.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we would
question the identification of Rattlesden as a Primary
village, when the range of services it offers and its
location in the District would justify a status as a Key
Service Centre. We would ask that this status be
reviewed.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we object
to the proposed status of Westhorpe as a village with
no settlement boundary, particularly as a number of
villages defined as secondary or even primary are of
a comparable size.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we object
to the proposed status of Redgrave, a sizeable
village with some local services as a village with no
settlement boundary, particularly as a number of
villages defined as secondary or even primary are of
a comparable size.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
Response
Note the agreement with
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Disagree. Close proximity to
Bury St Edmunds, Woolpit and
other KCS. Smaller population
and fewer services than of the
designated Key Service
Centre. Retain as Primary
village.
Note the agreement with
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Disagree. Small population, no
services. Small linear hamlet
close to Bacton and difficult to
access by road. Retain as
countryside village
classification.
Amend settlement hierarchy –
Redgrave from countryside
village to secondary village.
Reason: Commutes to outside
shops and school / low
population / new shop.
Note the agreement with
43
No
Item
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
ID/Name
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
ID/Type
Object
40
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2071
Mr. Trevor
Dodkins
(Strutt & Parker)
2184
Object
41
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
178
Mrs. P. Fuller
(Clerk to Woolpit
Parish Council)
216
Mrs. M. Lewis
(Clerk to Syleham
Parish Council)
2207
Object
Having looked at comments in column C & L, I
advise that the garage no longer sells petrol, just
cars.
2208
Object
The councillor who wished to comment was
concerned, particularly as we are just embarking on
a Parish Plan, that the classification of our village as
'Countryside' would preclude any small-scale
development of housing that was not specifically
"affordable". Further to the email I sent on 2nd July,
I am writing as I suggested I would do following the
parish council meeting to supply further information
on local jobs in this parish.
42
Summary
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy set out in CS1, we would
question the identification of Great Finborough as a
Primary village, when the range of services it offers
and its location in the District would justify a status
as a Key Service Centre. We would ask that this
status be reviewed.
As set out in the following sections particularly in
relation to the development strategy we support the
overall vision for mid Suffolk in terms of
concentrating growth within larger towns and key
villages. Whilst we therefore support in general terms
the settlement hierarchy as set out in CS1, we object
to the proposed status of Badwell Ash as a village
with no settlement boundary, and would request that
this status be reconsidered.
Response
Settlement hierarchy criteria.
Disagree. Small population, a
number of services but very
close to Stowmarket. Retain
as primary village
classification.
Badwell Ash has been
identified as a Primary Village.
It is proposed to remove the
settlement boundary of Long
Thurlow, Badwell Ash. Long
Thurlow is specifically
excluded from the settlement
boundary since it is a
considerable distance and
does not relate well to the
services in Badwell Ash.
Noted, make amendments to
Evidence Base (parish
facilities list) accordingly.
Disagree. No services and a
small population. The Council
would still encourage the
development of a parish plan
to support the needs of the
village. Amend evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
44
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
43
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2066
Mr. Andrew
Shallish
(Bullworthy
Shallish LLP)
2214
Object
Summary
The Parish Council notes the following employment
opportunities: Farming (7 known employees),
Nursery/ pre-school, Environment Agency (Waveney
Drainage), Essex and Suffolk Water Treatment
Works, B&B/ Holiday Let.
The Hierarchy will seriously harm the vitality and
viability of the villages classified as countryside and
the nearby villages to which they also relate/
interrelate. The Settlement Hierarchy shows a lack
of understanding of the way in which villages or
groups of villages interrelate and depend upon one
another in terms of how they function, and in
particular, sustain one another. It is considered that
the list of villages at Table 4.1 of paragraph 4.81
should be re-evaluated and where appropriate re
categorised. It is considered that the village of
Crowfield is a good example of an established
settlement with a number of facilities, which functions
together with the nearby villages of Coddenham,
Pettaugh and Stonham Aspal. It is a settlement
where small-scale residential development has taken
place in the past and ought to continue to take place
in the future if the viability of the village community is
to be sustained along with the aforementioned
nearby settlements. Crowfield has a number of
facilities including a village hall, playing field with
football pitch and well equipped play area, Baptist
church, public house, employment opportunities,
post box, bus shelter/ bus services. Bus services
operate along Debenham Road, serving destinations
such as Ipswich and Debenham and village in
between. It is a village with its own services and
also public transport facilities such that residents are
not solely dependent on the car. These services are
Response
PPS1, PPS3, RSS Policy SS4,
Government Office (GO-East),
PPS1, PPS3 and various
Inspector’s reports advises
against dispersed
development at small villages
with little or no services. In
order for the Core Strategy to
be found sound this is the
likely approach that would
need to be taken. Provision is
made for local needs by
including Primary and
Secondary Villages within the
Settlement Hierarchy. This
can be reviewed in three years
to consider changes and local
circumstances. Development
in Primary and Secondary
villages would have to be
appropriate to the location and
across the board this would
imply allocations of 300
houses.
The settlement hierarchy
defines a spatial vision for
allocations that will meet the
delivery of housing required
for the area to 2024. The
45
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
Summary
complemented by a wide range of facilities available
in neighbouring villages such as Stonham Aspal,
Coddenham and Pettaugh. School buses run from
the centre of Crowfield (Gosbeck turning) e.g. in the
morning leaving at 8.31 am and arriving at Stonham
Aspal Primary School at 8.38 am and Debenham
High School at 8.50am. Crowfield is a sustainable
village for continued small-scale residential
development. It is a village, which, by virtue of its
size, facilities and relationship/ convenience to other
nearby settlements, is one that should be included in
the Settlement Hierarchy as a Primary village.
44
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
248
Mr. A. Catchpole
(Clerk to
Westhorpe Parish
Council)
2223
Support with
conditions
45
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
179
Mrs. P. Fuller
(Clerk to
Onehouse Parish
Council)
2226
Object
Members have indicated that they are in accord with
the criteria used to define our settlement and the
level that the parish has been defined in the
hierarchy.
They are undecided as to whether they agreed to
abolish the settlement boundaries around the village.
However, regarding the Services and Facilities
provided, the village does not have a pharmacy nor
daycare facilities.
Councillors are deeply concerned regarding the use
of land in the parish of Onehouse being used for the
expansion of Stowmarket. As you are well aware
from the Onehouse Parish Plan 2006, residents
strongly oppose this. Indeed, it is felt that as we have
none of the relevant facilities and you yourselves
have categorised Onehouse as countryside, then no
large-scale development should take place.
Councillors were also concerned regarding the
Response
evidence base and
consultation to support the
settlement hierarchy. The
preferred options consultation
has re-evaluated all the
villages; the evidence base
was also available for
consultation and amended
accordingly. Crowfield has a
small population, limited
facilities and services.
Crowfield is a linear village;
nearest services is a
significant distance in adjacent
villages. Retain its countryside
village status.
Note the support for the
settlement hierarchy criteria.
Note comments. Amend the
evidence base (parish facilities
list) accordingly.
Noted, details regarding
location of development will be
considered in Site Specific
Allocations. No change to
Settlement Hierarchy. Amend
the evidence base (parish
facilities list) accordingly.
46
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
46
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
293
Mrs. J. Clarke
(Clerk to
Somersham
Parish Council)
2227
Support
Summary
removal of the settlement boundary. This could
mean no further infill building within the core of the
village. Whilst we would not want to see much
development, we would perhaps want smaller
development of 5 or less dwellings to enable local
residents to stay within the parish. Onehouse Parish
Council feels that an alternative strategy should be
investigated.
Having put your email to councillors, whilst they do
not dispute that we have Fieldens and Charisma Hair
in the parish, it is the heading of shop that causes
confusion. Could these not be categorised as
commercial premises rather than shops? If not, could
Fieldens be reclassified as a commercial premise?
Somersham Parish Council approves of the way
MSDC have determined a hierarchy of villages,
which is an improvement on previous consultations,
which seemed to ignore villages not designated as
Key Service Centres. The categorisation of
Somersham as a "Primary Village" is also approved.
Presumably Somersham is deemed a "Primary
Village" because it has a school and a shop, but we
feel other factors should include:
1) the existence of other retail outlets e.g. pub and a
garage
2) population level needed to sustain existing
facilities, i.e. Somersham Primary School, which
could be threatened if school numbers decreased
significantly.
3) the provision of recreational facilities that also
serve satellite villages.
Regarding significant employers as previously stated
Somersham has a school, pub and garage, as well
as a livery stable and a farm. It is doubtful that any of
Response
Note the support for the
settlement hierarchy criteria.
Agree. No change to
Settlement Hierarchy. Amend
the evidence base (parish
facilities list) accordingly
47
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
47
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
439
Mr. P. Dow
(Clerk to Elmswell
Parish Council)
2234
Support with
conditions
48
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
477
Mrs L. Silvester
(Clerk to Metfield
Parish Council)
2235
Object
49
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1424
Mrs. H. Nunn
(Clerk to
Ringshall Parish
Council)
2236
Support
Summary
the above businesses could be described as
significant employers on their own, but collectively
they could be deemed as significant employers that
rely on a vibrant and sustainable community.
Elmswell Parish Council agrees that, within the terms
of reference of the LDF process, the criteria used to
define Elmswell as a Key Service Centre are
appropriate and that the designation of Elmswell as a
Key Service Centre is appropriate. However, they
wish to stress, that in light of any impeding
development, a link road to A1088/ A14 north of the
railway line is essential.
Although we have limited services in the village
(particularly a limited bus service) we have a public
house, community shop and 2 garages (repair).
We are concerned there are a limited number of infill
sites for housing left inside the settlement boundary.
Villages such as Metfield need controlled expansion
to secure the future of services such as the pub and
shop.
Response
Criteria are out of date. There is no petrol station or
mobile shop nor a childgroup. The shop and post
office mentioned is actually a mile away and is part
of Wattisham Airfield - it is not within walking
distance and anyway there is no footway along the
road. We are not sure what "environment" means.
The Parish Council would prefer Ringshall to remain
as a secondary village particularly if the local
Agree. No change to
Settlement Hierarchy.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
Note the support for the
settlement hierarchy criteria.
Agree. No change to
Settlement Hierarchy. Note
comments of A1088/A14 link
road, this will form part of the
Site Specific Allocations
document.
A secondary village allows for
small-scale development and
local need development. No
change to Settlement
Hierarchy – low population
and limited services, retain
secondary village. Settlement
Boundary amendments will
form part of the Site Specific
Allocation Development Plan
Document process. Amend
the evidence base (parish
facilities list) accordingly.
48
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
50
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1413
Mrs. J. M. Hall
(Clerk to
Akenham Parish
Meeting)
2237
Observations
51
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1422
Mrs. M. Marlow
(Clerk to
Pettaugh Parish
Council)
2240
Object
52
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1422
Mrs. M. Marlow
(Clerk to
Pettaugh Parish
Council)
2241
Object
Summary
development could be affordable housing to allow
local people to have the chance to remain in their
village.
Green Label Ducks have a large rearing facility.
Storage warehousing on another farm. The Parish is
adjacent to Ipswich - Thurleston School, Whitton
Sports Centre. Bus routes on Henley Road and
Defoe Road Ipswich and Ipswich Claydon and
Claydon School lies on the northern side of the
parish within easy reach.
Councillor Carole Maran
I have concerns about the "secondary village"
classification of Pettaugh. In comparison to adjacent
parishes for example Helmingham and Crowfield
both have established business, a regular bus
service, public houses and places of worship.
However, according to the map provided they are not
classed as "secondary villages" so why does
Pettaugh fall into this category? In view of these
discrepancies, I would suggest that further
consultation, should take place with the District
Council, in order to determine the correct
classification of Pettaugh in the LDF.
Councillor S Davies
Hierarchy:
I have concerns about the classification of Pettaugh
within the MSDC local plan hierarchy. If MSDC
proceed and classifying Pettaugh as a "Secondary
Village", what are the implications with regard to
access to funding/ grants, land development (ie land
bids), MSDC services and County resources? In
comparison to adjacent parishes (e.g. Helmingham
and Crowfield), what places Pettaugh in this
category? For example, Crowfield, which has two
Response
Note comments. Amend the
evidence base (parish facilities
list) accordingly.
Agree. Change Settlement
Hierarchy for Pettaugh from
secondary village to
countryside village status.
Small population, limited
facilities, parish council
support for amendment.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
Agree. Change Settlement
Hierarchy for Pettaugh from
secondary village to
countryside village status.
Small population, limited
facilities, parish council
support for amendment.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
49
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
53
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1422
Mrs. M. Marlow
(Clerk to
Pettaugh Parish
Council)
2243
Support
54
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2076
Mrs. C.I. Cooke
2247
Object
Summary
established businesses/ employers, an industrial
estate, village hall, regular bus service, public house
and two well used religious buildings is classed as
rural countryside. Crowfield also has several small
enterprises providing self-employment for local
people. Pettaugh has none of these facilities,
excepting the presence of a post office/ shop and the
same bus service.
Councillor S J Dalrymple
I agree with the Settlement Hierarchy, that Pettaugh
Parish be included in the Secondary Villages unsuitable for growth but capable of taking
development for local needs only.
Response
I have looked at the 'services' you have listed for
several local villages and question why for example
Stowlangtoft, Wyverstone, and Tostock are classified
as 'Secondary Villages' when they have no more and
perhaps less to offer than Wetherden. Wetherden
should be a 'Secondary Village'.
Please note that we have two local employers,
Diapers and Two Sister (Rannochs) at Haughley
New Street which are nearer to Wetherden than
Haughley, as well as several other small businesses,
and now may offer Wetherden more local
employment than there is in Elmswell and Haughley.
Please remember that a village that never changes
will loose all its facilities and will socially die and
Disagree. No change
Settlement Hierarchy.
Wetherden has a small
population, it is located
between Haughley and
Elmswell Key Service Centres,
and it has no facilities or
services that are present in
village. It does not warrant an
amendment. Amend the
evidence base (parish facilities
list) accordingly. A
countryside village, will allow
the principle of community
Agree. Change Settlement
Hierarchy for Pettaugh from
secondary village to
countryside village status.
Small population, limited
facilities, parish council
support for amendment.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
50
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
55
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1793
Mr. John
Scrivener
2248
Object
56
Core
Strategy
415
Mr. & Mrs. D. & J.
2250
Object
Summary
therefore reference 4.44 - social needs - is
particularly important. Wetherden has already lost its
Primary School, Post Office, and Shop due to earlier
planning decisions. Please note that the old school
building is now being used as pre-school.
I am writing with regard to my land bid in the village
of Wetherden and my concern that the village is to
be classified as countryside. Wetherden has seen a
lot of changes, even in my short life, sadly the school
closed in 1984 when I believe the number of pupils
were 9. We have a total of 228 properties (electoral
roll) with 6 more due to be built, approx 60 of these
have been built since the early 1980s, which is 29%
of the total. Regenerating the village this is of course
good news but all the new properties are large
detached 3/4/5 bedrooms and way out of the reach
of local people. We have a lot of new people come
into the village many nearing pensionable age but it
is not really good for the future. With the current
need for low cost starter homes you should be
looking very hard at all available sites in Mid Suffolk
particularly along the A14 corridor where the
landowners are not greedy and looking to make
mega bucks from large over priced developments. I
would like to give something back to help develop a
proper village not a saga commune with Wetherdens
closeness to the A14 the large factory at Haughley
park and the great need for low cost homes in Mid
Suffolk. I hope you reconsider your decision to list us
as countryside, I don’t want the village to die. I
noticed that all our neighbouring villages will be
allowed to expand, why not us?
We understand that the Parish Council is opposing
the above proposal, which we are told will, inter alia,
Response
facilities, leisure facilities,
economic growth and
affordable housing. The status
will not contribute to a village
‘dying’.
The land bid will form part of
the Site Specific Allocations
Development Plan Document
process. If the land bid is for
affordable housing, the
exception site policy within the
forthcoming Generic
Development Control Policies
Development Plan Document
will allow for the principle of
such as proposal is a need is
identified.
It is proposed to amend the
settlement hierarchy of
51
No
Item
CS 1
Towns:
ID/Name
Chaplin
ID/Type
57
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
233
Mrs. K. Maddams
(Clerk to
Thorndon Parish
Council)
2280
Support with
conditions
58
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1418
Mrs. P. A.
Southall
(Chairman to
Nettlestead
Parish Meeting)
2282
Object
Summary
restrict future expansion of the village. On such a
pivotal matter, it would seem natural for the Parish
Council, as a non-elected body, to have held
consultations with the villagers or at least have taken
soundings from them. We are unaware of any such
process having taken place and consequently write
to register our support for the proposal to designate it
as a secondary village. We wish Redgrave to remain
a small self-contained village and not one that is
regarded as a growth area. Experience elsewhere
indicates that this will result in its eventually merging
with the additional villages of Botesdale and
Rickinghall.
TPC are happy with the overall strategy as detailed
within the document but wish to comment on the
categorisation for Thorndon.
The list of facilities for Thorndon has 2 inaccuracies.
There is now no petrol station. This ceased trading
and was demolished a number of years ago. Also
the Post Office Stores has not supplied food or drink
for some time.
We note that you regard Thorndon as a borderline
Primary/Secondary village & in light of the above
corrections TPC would ask that you re-evaluate
Thorndon's categorisation and advise us of any
change.
As discussed earlier today, please note the following
changes to the data as produced in your table,
received with the other documents relating to the
above.
COLUMN C: NETTLESTEAD NOW HAS NO
PUBLIC PHONE
THE ONLY MOBILE SERVICE WE HAVE IS MILK
DELIVERY (about three weekly)
Response
Redgrave from countryside
village to secondary village a
new shop will open in
September and therefore has
sufficient facilities to be
considered a Secondary
Village.
Note the support for the
settlement hierarchy criteria.
Agree. Change to Settlement
Hierarchy to secondary village
from primary village
classification. No food shop.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
52
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
59
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
446
Mrs. C. Brewin
(Clerk to Hoxne
Parish Council)
2292
Support
60
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1701
Mr. E. Ling
(E. R. Ling &
Sons Ltd.)
2294
Object
61
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1422
Mrs. M. Marlow
(Clerk to
Pettaugh Parish
Council)
2295
Object
Summary
NO INFORMATION SERVICE (whatever that used
to be!)
NO BUSES (we never did!)
COLUMN G: THEREFORE, SHOULD READ 'NIL'
COLUMN K: THE ONLY DEPENDENCY WE HAVE
WITH NEARBY SOMERSHAM IS THEIR BUS
SERVICE
AND PUB.
Companies: Clarets, Malcolm Easey. Item 79: We do
not have a petrol station at 46D Cross Street, it is
now a garage. Would like to confirm that they are
correctly categorised as a primary village.
Response
I have lived in Palgrave all my life and went to
Palgrave school as did my three sons. Palgrave is a
village, which has a school, garage, business park,
community centre, football team, three table tennis
teams, 10 minutes to Diss station, five minutes from
centre of village on foot a Tesco store. I don’t class
this village second class as some people try to make
out. We would like to have three houses every year
built in Palgrave to keep the village school and all
other village businesses alive. Please note we have
a bar serving drinks at the community centre most
nights. I don’t class this second-class village. Please
note we have a Tesco store five minutes from centre
of Palgrave. No village shop can compete with
Tesco.
We believe the reason that Pettaugh has been
initially classified as a secondary village is due to the
fact we have a post office and a bus service. Unlike
larger villages, we do not have the amenities
normally associated with the presence of a post
office or a regular daily public bus. We are a very
Note the support for the
settlement hierarchy criteria.
Disagree, insufficient facilities
and therefore no change to
Settlement Hierarchy.
Palgrave remains secondary
village. Request for 3
dwellings per year would not
taker place via appropriate
infill. Amend the evidence
base (parish facilities list)
accordingly.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
Agree. Change Settlement
Hierarchy for Pettaugh from
secondary village to
countryside village status.
Small population, limited
facilities, parish council
53
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
Summary
small village of only 163 parishioners and therefore
the shop/post office is mainly serviced by passing
trade from the A1120. Also considering the recent
review we are highly unlikely to retain our post office,
and as a consequence our shop will lose its financial
viability. The bus service is typically rural and
infrequent. If parishioners wish to travel by bus to
either Debenham or Ipswich (the only destinations
with shops) the minimum return journey time is 2 hrs.
45 min. and 3 hrs. 15 min. respectively. This makes
car use a necessity for families, and imposes
isolation on the elderly as access to neighbouring
villages is impossible. Unlike many of the secondary
villages in your document, we do not have any
employers in Pettaugh and therefore we are primarily
a residential and rural parish. We therefore feel that
Pettaugh exhibits the economic characteristics of a
rural/countryside classification rather than a village.
Response
support for amendment.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
As a parish council we feel that Pettaugh should not
be classed as a secondary village. Our facilities are
more in keeping with a countryside village, due to
our size and lack of amenities. We do not have any
recreational facilities and the post office/shop and
bus service are limiting. Compared with neighbouring
villages, Pettaugh has a small population with no
businesses. Development under the secondary
village status would be impossible for Pettaugh, as
we do not have room for infilling and this would just
lead to cramming. We do feel that if we were to be
classed as a countryside village, there would be a
more positive approach to planning issues. For
example, under the guidelines it would mean as a
parish council we would be looking at what the
54
No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
62
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
2084
Mr. Fred Brooks
2296
Object
63
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1420
Mr. P. W. Sands
(Clerk to Offton
Parish Council)
2297
Support
Summary
village needs, rather than the negative approach of
what the village does not require. Also, we prefer to
consider the parish holistically rather than as discrete
zones; thereby developing our strategy for Pettaugh
from an inclusive viewpoint providing amenities and
a safe environment equally for all parishioners.
Taking all these issues into account, we request that
you review our classification and re-designate
Pettaugh as a countryside village.
Anyone who knows anything about Redgrave knows
that, of course, it is a village. Those who say it
should be downgraded because it ‘has no school or
shop’ just don’t know what they’re talking about –
and should be told so. Redgrave did have a school in
the village until a few years ago when it (and also
Rickinghall School) was closed when a new school,
serving the three villages of Redgrave, Botesdale
and Rickinghall, was built in Botesdale. So Redgrave
has ‘got a school’! Regarding the shop, it is true that
the shop closed about three years ago – but a new
one is in the process of being built/ opening. So,
shortly, Redgrave will have a shop again.
Before MSDC councillors sound off about whether
Redgrave is a village or not, they should be careful
to make sure that they know what the facts are – and
not engage in ill-informed speculation.
The criteria for the determination, and the
determination as "Countryside" are agreed. The loss
of infill potential adds to the problems of children of
village residents, in acquiring homes in their own
community. There are no "significant employers".
Response
It is proposed to amend the
settlement hierarchy of
Redgrave from countryside
village to secondary village a
new shop will open in
September and therefore has
sufficient facilities to be
considered a Secondary
Village.
Note the support for the
settlement hierarchy criteria.
Agree. No change to
Settlement Hierarchy. Amend
the evidence base (parish
facilities list) accordingly.
55
No
64
Item
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
ID/Name
1433
Mr. J. H. Bean
(Clerk to
Wyverstone
Parish Council)
ID/Type
2298
Object
Summary
The Parish Council is unhappy that Wyverstone
should be considered as a secondary village. They
were unanimous in wishing that the Parish should be
included in the list of Countryside. The comment on
the literature that Wyverstone is a “satellite” of
Bacton was not approved of. It is noted that all the
other small villages surrounding Bacton are in the list
of “countryside”; so please can consideration be
given to giving Wyverstone the same status.
Response
Agree. Change to Settlement
Hierarchy. Small population,
lack of services and facilities
for secondary status. Amend
the evidence base (parish
facilities list) accordingly.
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Strategy
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Towns:
2083
Mrs. Tracey
Brinkley
(Mid Suffolk
District Council)
2299
Other
·Barking Tye – not aware that this village has a shop
or school should it therefore be a SV or Countryside?
·Beyton - only has a Middle School, which County
are proposing to close
·Mendham – this village has a shop and school,
should it therefore be a PV?
·Ringshall Stocks – this village has a shop (near
Wattisham Base or is that Gt Bricett?) and school,
should it therefore be a PV?
·Stowlangtoft – this village has no shop or school,
should it therefore be a SV or Countryside?
·Tostock – this village has no shop or school, should
it therefore be a SV or Countryside?
·Wattisham Airfield – what is the basis for including
this?
·Wyverstone – this village has no shop or school,
should it therefore be a SV or Countryside?
·Barham – this is grouped with Claydon and Gt
Blakenham as a KEY SERVICE CENTRE?
·Great Bricett – is the shop at Wattisham Airfield or
in Gt Bricett – should it be a SV?
·Helmingham – has a school, should this be a SV?
·Redgrave – shop is re-opening
Barking Tye – Amend to
Countryside, lack of shop or
school. Small population
Beyton – Remain as
Secondary village
Mendham – Remain as
Secondary village
Ringshall – Remain as
Secondary village
Stowlangtoft – Amend to
Countryside, lack of shop or
school. Small population.
Tostock – Remain as
Secondary village
Wattisham – Included as a
basis for employment. MOD
now requires planning
approval for new development
– exception site policy for DC
Policies.
Barham – Remain as Key
Service Centre, sandy land will
remain outside.
Wyverstone – Amended from
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No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
Summary
66
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
356
Mr. B. Savill
(Clerk to Great
Ashfield Parish
Council)
2301
Object
We should be a Primary/ Secondary Village to allow
for some development and growth. We have a post
office, public phone, mobile shop/ services, village
hall, bus service and a population of over 300
people. Over 100 people are employed in the village.
Badwell Ash and Elmswell depend on Great Ashfield
not the other way round. More secondary than
Stowlangtoft or Wyverstone.
67
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Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
1422
Mrs. M. Marlow
(Clerk to
Pettaugh Parish
Council)
2302
Object
Martin Willson
I concur in principle with Mid Suffolk District
Council’s preferred option which would seem to
channel most development towards the Towns and
Key Service Centres while having the flexibility to
permit sustainable developments to meet local
needs in smaller settlements. However the basis for
identification of Secondary Villages, that is, either a
primary school or a shop, seems a rather simplistic
diagnostic tool. Pettaugh may have a shop/post
office, and a regular if infrequent bus service
(timetabling means for example that the bus is rarely
used for trips to Debenham, Pettaugh’s Key Service
Centre), but the village has no other facilities or
Response
Secondary to Countryside
village.
Gt. Bricett – Remain as
countryside village.
Helmingham – School is
poorly located to village hub.
Low population and no
facilities and services.
Redgrave – Amended to
Secondary Village.
Disagree. No change to
Settlement Hierarchy.
Stowlangtoft and Wyverstone
have been amended
accordingly to countryside
village. Amend the evidence
base (parish facilities list)
accordingly.
Agree. Change Settlement
Hierarchy for Pettaugh from
secondary village to
countryside village status.
Small population, limited
facilities, parish council
support for amendment.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly.
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Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
68
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
228
Mrs. M. P. Whurr
(Clerk to Little
Blakenham
Parish Council)
2303
Support
Summary
amenities – no play area, no allotments, very little
provision of pedestrian pavements, no village hall or
public meeting place (the mission hall is privately
owned and villagers are denied use of it except for
elections and parish council meetings), no public
house and no employment. A further negative is that
the village is centred on a crossing of two busy,
dangerous roads. Vehicular/pedestrian conflict is a
constant fact of life in Pettaugh and a major
constraint on the lifestyle of villagers: many are
reluctant to walk or to cycle because of the dangers.
This clearly has a major impact on the potential
sustainability of any development. Pettaugh’s
neighbouring villages are mostly more populous and,
the shop excepted, substantially better provisioned
with amenities and employment. Yet they are
designated Countryside, even in the case of
Helmingham and Framsden who possess between
them a thriving primary school and associated preschool nursery. So exceptions must be possible.
Generally it is larger well-resourced settlements,
which support a shop. Pettaugh is atypical, and
simply does not possess the population or amenities
that one might usually associate with a village with a
shop. I suggest that Pettaugh would more
reasonably be categorised with most of our
neighbours as Countryside, that is a village without a
settlement boundary, and this would, I suspect,
better suit the future planning needs of the parish.
Best classed as countryside
No Shops or mobile shops
Very little local employment
No school
Population 294
Response
Agree. No change to
Settlement Hierarchy.
Amend the evidence base
(parish facilities list)
accordingly. Comments noted
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No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
69
Core
Strategy
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Towns:
298
Ms. J Hunt
(Clerk to
Ashbocking
Parish Council)
2313
Object
70
Core
Mrs Rosemary
Support with
Summary
No suitable ground for building
No surgery
No post office
Very small village hall
Very small play area
Ashbocking is a growing village that has recently
seen a number of new houses built, a mix of
affordable homes and family homes, which is good
for the growth and spirit of the village, there are more
proposed under other projects in progress. But the
village is still lacking public facilities and community
areas, which could provide a focal point for social
and community life. There is currently a proposal
which the parish council are actively considering that
would provide a village hall and an amenity area for
community use completely funded by the sale of a
modest area of land for housing to a local land
owner. The parish council are keen that this, and
projects like this, remain a possibility to permit
Ashbocking to grow to meet the needs of our
community.
Keeping the options open on development within the
village is important to accommodate the progressing
requirements and life stages of our villagers. We
have a very mixed demography within the village
with the largest number of children (over 30) resident
within the village possibly ever, and in the next 10 to
15 years some of these will be homebuyers
themselves likely to want to stay within the village.
Likewise the older generation would like options to
downsize their dwelling without having to move from
the village where their support network is in place.
Following our recent conversations, I can now inform
Response
Parish Council state that the
village is still lacking public
facilities and community areas
which could provide a focal
point for social and community
life, there is currently a
proposal which the Parish
Council are actively
considering that would provide
a village hall and an amenity
area for community use.
Community uses may be
acceptable in the countryside.
No change
Amend Barking to be
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Item
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
ID/Name
ID/Type
(Clerk
Barking conditions
Parish Council)
Summary
you of the responses from Barking Parish Council
regarding the categorisation of Barking as
‘Countryside’ in the above consultation document.
Response
classified as Countryside,
since it does not have a shop
or school. Small population.
An extraordinary meeting was held on 23rd August
2007 to discuss the issue in detail and the following
comments were made. Concern was raised that
Barking will ‘die’ if no development is to take place,
although it was appreciated that there will still be a
possibility of ‘low cost affordable housing’ provided a
good case was made for such development. It was
generally felt that young people did want to settle in
Barking and Darmsden, but could not afford to. It
was decided that a Village Housing Needs Survey
should take place as part of the Parish Plan project.
It was also appreciated that as there is no shop or
school and very limited other ‘services’, Barking
would not be categorised as a ‘Secondary Village’,
but as ‘Countryside’.
After much discussion it was accepted that Barking
must be categorised as ‘Countryside’, but I have
been asked to respond to Mid Suffolk District Council
with the following concerns/comments.


Barking Parish Council is concerned that it
will lose its ability to make its own local
decisions.
Concerns that priority will be given to
spending on services in the Primary and
Secondary Villages, and that Countryside
would receive low priority, and if this were to
happen, the impact of the lack of spending on
Barking.
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No
Item
ID/Name
ID/Type
1
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
230
Baker & Co
(Clerk to Buxhall
Parish Council)
1664
Object
2
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
Combs Parish
Council
Observation
Summary
 It should be recorded that Barking does have
regular transport, albeit limited and there is
also a community bus service.
 Concern that as there will be no settlement
boundary, where would affordable housing be
placed?
 Concern raised that if there is affordable
housing in Barking with no infill, there will be
no-where for people to progress to, i.e. there
will be a huge gap between the affordable
housing and the existing properties.
 Barking Parish Council would want the option
to still have some infill if a good case were to
be made.
Barking Parish Council asks the question – what
benefits go with being classified as ‘Countryside’?
The Council supports the Key Village concept,
however allowance should be made for new
additional housing (other than exceptions) for
expansion to meet growing population. The numbers
described should be rebalanced between the urban/
rural areas and reviewed after three years.
Response
The policy could be reviewed
in three years if circumstances
change. An exceptions policy
would be included in
Development Control Policies
to allow affordable housing
even at villages without
settlement boundaries. In
addition it is considered that
the hierarchy is in accordance
with national and regional
guidance where development
should be focussed at
sustainable settlements.
With regard to the criteria used to define Combs, we
would advise you that there is no school in the
village/ parish. Combs Middle School is on the
Stowmarket Side of the Parish Boundary. There are
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ID/Name
ID/Type
3
Core
Strategy
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Towns:
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Strategy
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Towns:
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
433
Mr. C. Hall
(Clerk to Cotton
Parish Council)
Eye Town
Council
1774
Support
4
5
Harleston Parish
Council
Support
Summary
two pubs in the village/ parish, both of which serve
food. We confirm that there are two public phone
boxes. Modible shops and services include milk,
newspapers, butchers and fishmongers. Information
services include parish notice boards at three
locations. There is a bus to Stowmarket and
Hadleigh via Bildeston four days a week.
Although the SCC bus that runs morning and
evening during term time is used mainly by school
children, it is available to the general public.
Regarding the level at which the village has been
categorised, since the village has no shop and no
school it might be necessary to reassess its level. In
doing so, we would ask you to consider the level of
local employment.
Although there are no major employers in the village/
parish, there are several small businesses housed
on the former tannery site, which together represent
a significant level of employment (1204), as well as
smaller number on the Kimberley Hall Site.
I agree with the criteria used to define my settlement.
I agree with the position of Cotton in the preferred
hierarchy.
Response
The Eye Town Council supports the classification of
Eye as a Town in the proposed settlement hierarchy
Support noted
There has not been a post office in Harleston for at
least 4 years. The nearest post office is a distance
of 3.5 miles. The mobile shop/ service consists of a
mobile fish and chip van once a week for 30 minutes,
a mobile butchers van once a week and a mobile
library one a fortnight.
Noted.
Support noted.
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No
6
Item
General
7
Core
Strategy
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Towns:
8
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
9
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
10
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
11
Core
Strategy
CS 1
Towns:
ID/Name
213
Mrs. S. Jones
(Clerk to
Mendlesham
Parish Council)
445
Mrs. J. Scarff
(Clerk to
Shelland Parish
Meeting)
250
Mr. A. Catchpole
(Clerk to
Stonham Aspal
Parish Council)
Stowlangtoft
ID/Type
2281
Support
Summary
The document was well thought out and will help
with affordable housing.
Response
Support noted.
1733
Support
Shelland acceptable and agreed
No action.
2121
Support
Stonham Aspal Parish Council is happy with the
position of the parish within the hierarchy and the
criteria used. They have no further comments.
No action
Object
We wish to be reclassified as ‘the countryside’. The
village has no school, no shop and no significant
employers. There is very little room for infill. All land
surrounding the village is agricultural.
Amended to Countryside
Village
126
Mrs. K. Savage
(Clerk to Thurston
Parish Council)
1984
Support
This Council agrees with the criteria used to define Thurston as a Key
Service Centre, but would highlight the lack of a Doctor's Surgery, for
which we have been lobbying for many years.
No action
249
Mr. A. Couzens
(Clerk to Wetherden
Parish Council)
1769
Support
The council agrees with the level in the Hierarchy within which
Thurston has been defined.
We agree with the criteria used to define our settlement. The level that
our parish has been defined in the hierarchy. We agree that Wetherden
should be categorised as Countryside.
No action.
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Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Appendix C: Summary of Village services
x
x
x
Yes x
x
x
Small area on edge of Ipswich, part of IPA
to be planned accordingly; the Parish is
adjacent to Ipswich - Thurleston School,
Whitton Sports Centre, Bus routes on
Menley Road and Defoe Road Ipswich + Green Label Ducks have a large
Ipswich Claydon; Claydon School lies on rearing facility; storage
Northern side of Parish in easy reach
warehousing on another farm
Permanent shop
(Banyard Café), petrol
station, environment,
public phone, mobile
shop/service(5),
information service(4),
Ashbocking 318 bus 7 days week
x
Public phone, mobile
shop/service(4), meeting
place, information
service(4), recreation
Ashfield
area, bus service 2 days
Cum Thorpe 187 week
x
x
x
Yes x
x
x
Services have dwindled over the period of
the local plan
x
x
x
x
Yes x
Subsidiary of Debenham
x
x
x
x
x
Hamlet north of Debenham
nsb
Akenham
nsb Aspall
Mobile Shop/Service(2),
53 Bus 6 days week
Mobile Shop/Service(3),
52 Information Service
x
x
64
Bacton (3a
& 3b)
Public Phone(1), Mobile
23 Shop/Service(2)
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Permanent shop, post
office, petrol(2), - only
one point where one is
able to purchase petrol
Food & Drink,
environment(2), public
phone(2), mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup(2), schools(2),
surgery - now a
permanent building
recently developed to
replace very small
surgery on Tailors Green,
pharmacy, care home,
meeting place(3 - small
village hall), information
services(3 - all public
notice boards: one at
Shop Green, one at
Turkey Hall Lane turning
and one at village hall),
recreation area(8), bus
service - regular bus
services 6 days a week
(useful for shoppers but
not convenient if you
need to use them for
1227 office hours, only a
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
nsb
Athelington
Our smallest settlement just South of
Stradbroke
Schools, Blacks, Jefferies; more
places of employment: D Black &
Sons, Red House Farm; Jefferies
Garage & Bacton Bears; Primary
and Middle Schools; Old Peoples
residential home at The Manor,
Church Road; Lamberts Garage,
Shop Green; The Village Stores
and Post Office, Shop Green; Jollys
Transport, Coppings Corner;
Wheatley Associates Software,
Broad Road; Electrical Services,
(R.Davies) Cow Green; Potash
Nurseries, Broad Road; Kerrys Pine
Furniture, Kerrys Lane, off Cow
Green; Portable Space, Industrial
Site, Red House Farm; Wood Bee
Design, Industrial Site, Red House
Farm; PDH Electrical, Cedar Close;
Surgery & Health Centre, Church
Road; Finbows Yard, Station Road
furniture & carpets; J.Lawes,
Hardware, Finbows Yard, Station
Road; Probitts Wood Yard, Finbows
Previously CS3. Small for KSC but fills a Yard; E & D Boilers, Finbows Yard;
gap in the middle of the District and some Mobility Service, Finbows Yard;
scope for expansion.
Candle Man, Finbows Yard; D
Shop - Londis General Store includes
Aitkin, Electrical Goods, Finbows
groceries, bakery, off licence.
Yard; Traditional Brickwork Ltd.;
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Permanent Shop, Petrol
Station, Mobile
Shop/Service (3), Bus 6
nsb Badley
79 days week
x
x
x
Permanent shop, post
office, other business(2),
food & drink(3), public
phone, mobile
shop/services(5),
childgroup, school,
meeting place(3),
information services(3),
Badwell Ash
recreation(2), bus 6 days
(4a) Church 685 week, community service Yes Yes x
Badwell Ash
(4b) Long
Thurlow
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Stowmarket to Diss bus
service plus a skeleton
service to Bury, some 6
miles from Railway
Station, 4 miles to the
A14), childrens play area
in Birch Avenue which
the parish counciol hope
to provide equipment; *
no public playing field
other than rented church
land of St Marys
Bacton Hall Farm.
Yes x
x
x
Adjunct of Needham Market
In middle of ring of villages twice its size,
with at least as many services - Thurston,
Elmswell, Bacton, Walsham, Stanton,
Yes Yes Yes Yes Ixworth
REMOVE SB
66
Yes Yes x
Barham
(Sandy
Lane)
Barking
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Permanent shop (Co-op),
food& drink, public
Barham
phone, mobile
(that part of
shop/service(4),
parish lying
childgroup,
within the
surgery,pharmacy, care
Claydon
home, meeting place,
settlement
information services(5),
and sharing
recreation area(2), bus 7
facilities
1377 days week
Yes x
Planning based on settlements not parish
boundaries. All the relevant services lie
Yes Yes within the settlement of Claydon
Sandy Lane is about a mile from Claydon.
No settlement boundary, only the area
inside 'Claydon' is KSC
no permanent shop, no
petrol station, food &
drink, environment, public
phone - currently out of
order, mobile
shop/service(1-mobile
library), childgroups(1pre-school group), care
home, meeting place village hall, information
services(3) one notice
board, recreation area(3),
bus 6 days week 440 restricted bus service
x
x
x
x
x
Local employers: Clarke Fencing,
Barking Fox Public Home, Barking
Forge, Lion Barn Industrial Estate*,
various farmers, Barking Tye
Garage (*In the Parish of Barking
currently, but regarded as
Needham Market due to its locality)
--> with the exception of Lion Barn
Industrial Estate, would not regard
Satellite of Needham, 1mile away. Has a any of the above as 'significant
Yes Yes general store but no school.
employers'
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x
x
x
x
Baylham
Petrol station, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(4), meeting
place, information
service(3), bus 7 days
251 week
x
x
x
Yes x
Bedfield
Permanent shop (MACE
stores), post office, food
& drink, public phone,
mobile shop/services(5),
school, meeting place,
information services(4),
recreation area(4), bus 1
298 day week
Yes Yes x
x
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Battisford
Tye
Food & Drink,
environment, public
phone(2), mobile
shop/service(6),
childgroups(2), meeting
place(3), information
services(6), recreation
area(2), bus service 3
days week, community
482 services(2)
Surprisingly large population for level of
services. Possibly satellite of Stow &
Needham Market and may also be
Yes Yes Wattisham effect.
x
Yes Dependant on Needham and Blakenham
Surprisingly small population but
catchment probably close to 1000 with
Worlingworth,etc. Has a small general
store and school and up for consideration
as primary however poor public transport
and local employment make it unsuitable
for development growth so Secondary.
Yes Yes Yes Satellite of Debenham and Framlingham
68
Beyton
656
Botesdale
[consider
635
with
(+11
Rickinghall] 81)
nsb
Braiseworth
x
x
x
x
Inspectors decision that Bedingfield is
non-sustainable location. 2351/05.
Yes Yes APP/W3520/A/06/2016756
Petrol station, food &
drink(2), public phone,
mobile shop/service(5),
school, meeting place(2),
information service(4),
recreation area(5), bus 6
days week
x
Yes x
Yes x
Yes Yes Satelite of Woolpit and Thurston
Permanent shops (5),
post office, petrol station no petrol filling station,
other business(2), food &
drink(3), public phone,
childgroup(3), school,
surgery, pharmacy,
meeting place,
information services(3),
bus 6 days week
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes x
Yes KSC when amalgamate with Rickinghalls
61 None
x
x
x
x
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Bedingfield
(10a & 10b)
Public phone, mobile
shop/service(3), meeting
place, information
service(3), recreation
223 area, bus 2 days week
x
x
x
See with Rickinghall; no significant
employers within the immediate
area, local employers would
generally be of an
agricultural/horticultural nature,
small businesses and local shops
Pop 61 dependant on Eye and Thorndon
69
Brome (16
Strret) &
Oakley (57
Lower
Oakley)
nsb
Brundish
Petrol station, food &
drink (2), accommodation
(2), environment, public
phone(3), mobile
shop/service(4),
childgroups, meeting
place, information
service(3), bus 6 days
432 week
x
Food & Drink, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(5), meet
place, information
service(2), bus 6 days
192 week
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Bramford
Permanent shop [Co-op]
+(4), post office, other
business(3), food &
drink(3), environment(2),
public phone(2), mobile
shop/service(4),
childgroup, school Bramford is reliant on
Claydon for a secondary
school, pharmacy, care
home, meeting place(5),
information services(4),
recreation area(6), bus 7
day week - regular bus
2386 service
Yes Yes x
School, shops, ? Offices, PCT and
mix use at Scotts; there are no
trulty significant employers, the
Primary Care Trust offices at Paper
Mill Lane were staffed elsewhere
before coming to Bramford so do
not offer significant employment
opportunities to people in Bramford.
Close to Ipswich border protected by A14, The mixed development at Scotts
and close to Claydon/Blakenham but not may offer some if or when it is built.
reliant on them for anything other than
Employment in the village is dealt
Yes Yes Yes Yes GP. Capable of standing on own
with in the Parish Plan.
x
x
yes
x
x
yes
Diss, Eye, Hoxne nearby.
x
x
Yes x
x
Yes dependant on Stradbroke, Laxfield.
Eye airfield and Brome triangle
70
Buxhall
Claydon
162 None
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Permanent shop (NOT
FOOD), Food & drink
(Pub), public phone(2),
mobile shop/service(3),
meeting place,
information service(4),
recreation area(2), bus 6
426 days week
x
x
x
yes x
Yes yes
Permanent shop(6), post
office, petrol station, food
& drink(3),
accommodation,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/services(7),
childgroup(2), school(2),
surgery(2), pharmacy,
care home(2), meeting
place(3), information
services(4), recreation(3),
1912 bus 6 days week
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
nsb Burgate
Often taken as subsidiary of Wortham,
also close to Botesdale
Dependant on Gt. Finborough,
Rattlesden, Stowmarket
Pub, ?printers
Forms conglomerate with part Barham
and increasingly with Gt. Blakenham
Lots - indust estate, school, offices,
pub, SCC depot, truck sales,
71
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Permanent shop, post
office, petrol station(2),
Food & drink(3),
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(3),
childgroup, surgery,
Satellite of Needham and Ipswich, poor
pharmacy, meeting
road access to village centre and through
place(3), information
traffic renders walking hazardous. Poor
services(4), recreation
local employment also make village
Coddenham 521 area(4), bus 7 days week Yes x
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes unsuitable for growth
Food & Drink (2 pubs),
public phone(2), mobile
shop/services(5 including
milk,
newspapers,butchers and
fishmongers), information
services(3 parish notice
boards at three
locations), bus to
Stowmarket satellite. No shops. The
Stowmarket and Hadleigh
high population includes approx 200 in
via Bildeston four days
Stow settlement and some actually in
Combs
966 per week
x
Yes x
x
x
x
x
Battisford settlement.
No major employers in the
village/parish, but several small
businesses on the former Tannery
Site which together represent a
significant level of employment
(120+) and a smaller number on the
Kimberley Hall Site
72
Creeting St.
Mary (22a)
Creeting St
Mary (22b
Jacks
Green)
x
x
Yes x
x
x
x
No shop or school. Satellite of Bacton
physically separated by railway line and
Yes Yes low bridge.
x
Shop is Alder Carr closer to Needham
than Creeting centre, no general store.
Satellite of Needham Market with road
Yes Yes access curbed by difficult river/rail bridges
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Cotton
Permanent shop (Not
Food - 2 shops:
hairdresser shop & a
small plant centre) , Food
& drink - public house,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/services(6), meeting
place - village hall,
information services(4),
recreation areas(2
recreation areas), bus 3
days week - no bus route
through the village to
490 local towns
x
Permanent shop (Alder
Carr), market, food &
drink, public phone,
mobile shop/services(6),
childgroup(3), school,
meeting place(2),
information services(4),
recreation area(2),
673 community services
x
Employment in the village is limited
as there are no significant
employers in the vil;lage other than
farming and the public house.
Jacks Green is largely collection of
bungalows in attractive rural setting.
Further expansion could only be as
inappropriate suburb of Needham
73
Debenham
Yes x
Local Jobs
x
Petrol station, Food &
Drink, public phone,
mobile shop/service(4),
childgroup(2), meeting
place(2), information
service(3), recreation
329 area(2), bus 6 days week x
x
Permanent shop(14),
Post offices, petrol
station(3), other
business(7), bank(2),
food& drink(5),
environment, public
phone(2), mobile
shop/services(5),
childgroup(2), school(2),
surgery, pharmacy(2),
meeting places(5),
information service(5),
recreation area(12), bus
6 dats week, community
1874 services
Yes
x
Location
x
Village Hall/
Meeting place
x
Recreation
x
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
School
Crowfield
Pop
Parish
Creeting St.
Peter
Public phone(2), mobile
shop/service(4),
childgroup, meeting
place, information
service(4), recreation
area(3), bus 2 days
245 week, community service x
Yes Yes Subsidiary Stowmarket.
Yes Yes Comparatively isolated
Very self sufficient. Retains shops etc
because comparatively isolated location
makes it inconvenient to shop in
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Ipswich/Stowmarket/Framlingham.
Retail, scool, Tea rooms, police,
fire, comm centre.
74
x
x
Local Jobs
Yes Dependant on Eye, Stradbroke, Hoxne
Location
x
Dependant on Woolpit, bordering SLA,
large number of listed buildings, 2 large
VIOS. Remove SB
Drinkstone
27a Church
Drinkstone
27b Green
Village Hall/
Meeting place
x
Recreation
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
x
week and
more
Post
Office
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Denham
Public phone, mobile
shop/service(3),childgrou
p, meet place,
information service(4),
182 bus 1 day week
x
Environment, public
phone(2), mobile
shop/services(4),
childgroup, meeting
place, information
service(3), recreation
494 area(2), bus 6 days week x
x
x
Yes x
No School, no shop, dependant on
Woolpit and Rattlesden. Despite
population 500 difficult to justify any
Yes Yes development withoutits own employment
75
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Local Jobs
Industrial estates, shop, travel
agent, school, railway station,
police, etc. Note proximity to
Woolpit
Significant Employers
number: GROVE LANE
INDUSTRIAL ESTATE -->
H.C.Wilson: heavy houlage; safety
klean: industrial cleaning services;
Suffolk Meat Traders: meat
wholesalers; Hudson Haulage:
heavy houlage/logistics;
Groupbridge: civil engineers;
Furniture Direct: furniture
wholesaler/retail; Pro Mech/ D
Bevan: MOT, garage, commercial
vehicles; Mini Bus&Coach: bus and
coach hire; Elm Valley Foods:
frozen food distribution STATION
ROAD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE -->
Park garage:car maintenance;
Yardell Joinery: woodworkers (soon
moving); AJ Vet Services: IT
services to the veterinary industry;
Pets Place: pet shop; Mercia
International Fragrances:
fragrances importers; Euro Food
Machinery: commcercial catering
supplies; Colin Gould/David Royal:
car maintenance/bodyworks; M&J
Seafoods: fish wholesale &
distribution; Allpack: packaging
wholesaler; Rota Rod: drain
clearance/civil engineering; Gobblin
Wholefoods: food manufacturer;
Agri Build: steel building suppliers;
Kliktronic: motorcycle technicians;
Coastline: vehicle graphics (soon
moving); Organ Store: electric
organ wholesale/retail; Wells
Stitched Embroidery: machined
76
Felsham
Permanent shop, post
office, petrol station,
Food & drink,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(3),
childgroup, daycare,
pharmacy, meeting
place(2), information
service(4), recreation
area(4), bus 3 days
417 week, community service Yes x
Phar
macy x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Eye
Permanent shop(25),
post office, market,
bank(2), food & drink(6),
accommodation(3),
environment(2), public
phone(3), mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup(3), school(2),
daycare(3), hospital - ,
surgery(5), pharmacy(2),
care homes(3), meeting
place(6), information
services(5), recreation
area(4), bus 6 days
week, community
2000 services(2)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
"Eye (has) a small, wide-ranging
collection of shops", furthermore,
large employers include Mid Suffolk
Business Park, Grampian Foods
and Fibropower power station.
General Store, but no school. Despite
quite remote location lots services.
Yes Yes Yes Satellite of Rattlesden/Woolpit.
77
x
x
Yes x
Yes x
Flowton
Public Phone,Mobile
Shop/Service(3),Meet
Place, Information
Service(3), Bus 6 days
103 week
x
x
Yes x
x
Framsden
Food & Drink, public
phone, mobile
shops/services(3),
meeting place,
information services(3),
recreation area(2), bus 6
299 days week
x
Yes x
Hamlet dependant on
Debenham/Framlingham even Ipswich.
School is in Helmingham parish and
located well outside village on difficult
Yes Yes road.
x
x
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Finningham
Petrol station, Food &
Drink, environment,
public phone (2), Mobile
shop/service(5),
information service(3),
recreation area(2), bus 6
409 days week
x
No general store or school. Satellite
dependant on Bacton, etc. Despite
population 400, difficult to justify any
development without better services or
local employment.
Hamlet surrounded by SLA dependant on
Yes Somersham and Bramford
78
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Fressingfiel
d
Permanent shop (Mace
etc)(5), post office, petrol
station, food & drink(2),
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup(2), schools(2),
surgery, pharmacy,
meeting places(3),
information services(5),
recreation area(5), bus 6
days week, community
938 service
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Has a good range of services but not as
prominent as Stradbroke and no need two
KSC in that area. Capable of taking some
development as primary village - carefully Shops, school, potters, builders,
review SB to facilitate
farms.
Gedding
Public phone, Mobile
Shop/Service(4),
Information Service (3),
118 Bus Service 1 day week
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Borders SLA, close to Felsham possibly
helps keep that shop open. Dependant
on Woolpit / Rattlesden
nsb Gipping
Mobile Shop/Service, Bus
72 6 days week
x
x
x
Yes x
x
x
Dependant on Mendlesham, Stowupland,
Bacton
79
Gosbeck
Environment,public
phone, mobile
shop/service(2), meeting
place, information
service(2), bus 6 days
218 week
x
x
x
Yes x
nsb Great
Ashfield
Post office,
environment(2), public
phone, mobile
shop/service(4), meeting
place, information
service(3), bus 2 days
324 week
x
x
x
x
Yes Yes x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Gislingham
Permanent shop (incl.
General store) (2), post
office, food& drink,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(3),
childgroup, school,
daycare, meeting
places(2), information
services(3), recreation
878 area(3), bus 6 day week
Well serviced, benefits from Finningham
(400 pop) as useful satellite. Close to
other larger, better serviced villages that
are more accessible - Bacton,
Mendlesham, Rickinghall and Eye - so
Yes Yes Yes Yes primary village only
x
Yes x
Largely agric cottages of old Helmingham
Estate. In previous times Coddenham,
Otley and Ashbocking might provide
Yes services, now remote.
Dependant on Badwell Ash and
Yes Walsham/Elmswell
Employment jobs in the village is
over 100 people employed
80
x
Permanent shop, Post
office, Food & Drink,
Environment, Public
Phone, Mobile
shop/services(3), meeting
place(2), information
services(3), recreation
Great Bricett 1193 area(3), bus 6 days week Yes x
Great
Finborough
Previously considered satellite of Claydon
but within Ipswich Policy Area and Haven
Gateway Partnership; adjacent to
employment on industrial estate and with
Blue Circle housing will get benefit of
increase in services. Need to consider
development of Claydon and Gt. B for
As near to industrial estate as
mutual benefit and even without Snoasis Claydon plus Black Acre Hill. See
Yes Yes merits Key Service Centre
previous column.
x
Yes x
x
Spar stores. Wattisham Airbase overspill
and too remote to grow for own sake.
Rather than KSC keep as No Settlement
Boundary and talk direct to MOD as they
now require plan permission when they
Yes Yes Yes Yes need development.
Permanent shop
(Chaplins village store),
post office, food & drink,
public phone, mobile
shop/services(4),
childgroup(2), school,
care home, meet place,
information services(4),
recreation area(6), bus 6
755 days week
Yes Yes x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Great
Blakenham
Permanent shop (Not
Food), food & drink
(pub), environment(2),
public phone, mobile
shop/services(3), care
home, meeting place(2),
information services(3),
recreation area(3), bus 7
1083 days week
x
Level of Services suits Primary Village
however largely Stowmarket
satellite/overspill and some restraint
Yes Yes Yes Yes required.
81
Haughley
(41a only)
Haughley
(41b) Green
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Harleston
Nearest post office is a
distance of 3.5 miles
away, public phone,
mobile shop/service(3
mobile shops/services: a)
a mobile fish and chip
van once/week for 30
mins, b) a mobile
butchers van once/week,
c) SCC mobile library
once/fortnight),
information service(3),
150 bus 5 days week
x
x
x
Yes Yes x
x
Subsidiary Stowmarket.- remove SB
Permanent shop(4), Post
office, petrol station(2),
other business(3), food&
drink(5),
accommodation(3),
environment, public
phone(2), mobile
shop/services(6),
childgroups(4), school(2),
surgery, care home(2),
meeting places(3),
information services(3),
recreation area(9), bus 6
1710 days week
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Separate hamlet - remove SB
82
Yes x
Permanent shop(2),
petrol station, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(3), meeting
nsb
place, information
Hemingston
service(2), bus 6 days
e
207 week
Yes x
x
Post office and general
store, petrol station, food
& drink, environment,
public phone, mobile
shop/service(4),
childgroup(3), school,
daycare, meeting place,
information service(3),
recreation area(2), bus 6
Henley
546 days week
x
Yes x
Yes x
Yes x
x
School is much nearer Framsden than
Helmingham no service level to suppoprt
Yes development treat as countryside
x
Close to Coddenham and Ipswich. Shop
is in garage on awkward corner of busy
through road remote from the village
centre. No local employment and
Yes services do not justify development.
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Public phone, Mobile
shop/service(3), School,
Meeting Place,
nsb
Information Service(3),
Helmingham 147 Bus 6 days week
x
Yes Yes Yes Yes Satellite Ipswich
83
Hinderclay
Horham
Environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(6),
childgroup, meeting
place, information
service(4), recreation
335 area, bus 6 days week
Permanent shop
(General Store), post
office, public phone,
mobile shop/service(5),
meeting place(2),
information service(5),
recreation area, bus 6
303 days week
x
x
Yes x
Satellite Woolpit / Thurston, surrounded
by SLA and with large areas VIOS within
Yes Yes SB.
x
x
Yes x
Yes Yes Dependant on Rickinghall
Yes x
x
Yes Yes Yes Yes Satellite Stradbroke
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Hessett
Petrol station, Food &
Drink, Environment,
Public phone, mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup(2), meeting
place, information
services(4), recreation
487 area(4), bus 6 days week x
84
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Permanent shop General
Stores), post office,
food& drink, environment,
public phone(3), mobile
shop/services(4),
Hoxne (46a
childgroup(2), school,
Low Street
meeting place(4),
& 46b Cross
information services(3),
Street,
recreation area(5), bus 6
Heckfield
days week, community
Green
813 service
Yes Yes x
Previously CS3. Difficult to see what
population it serves outside the village
that cannot be served by Eye Stradbroke
or Diss. Self sufficient enough to be a
Companies: Clarets, Malcolm
Yes Yes Yes Yes primary village
Easey
Hunston
Public phone, Mobile
shop/service(4),
Information service (4),
148 Bus 6 days week
x
x
x
Yes x
x
x
Satellite of Badwell Ash, nearly all
settlement is conservation area and abuts
SLA
Kenton
Public phone, mobile
shop/service(3),
information service(3),
165 bus 1 day week
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Satellite Debenham
nsb
Langham
Public Phone, Mobile
Shop/Service(3),Informati
on Service(3), Bus 6 days
85 week
x
x
x
Yes x
x
x
Satellite Badwell Ash
85
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Laxfield
Permanent shop
(General Stores), post
office, petrol station,
food& drink, environment,
public phone, mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup(2), school,
daycare, surgery, care
home, meeting places(3),
information services(3),
recreation area(3), bus 6
Previously CS3. Duplicates Stradbroke
day week, community
(and Fressingfield). Self sufficient enough
872 services(3)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes to be a primary village
Little
Blakenham
(12b)
Public phone, mobile
shop/service(none),
meeting place - village
hall, information
service(3), recreation
area(2), bus 6 days
week, no school, no
surgery, no post office,
278 very small play area
x
x
x
Yes x
Serviced by Somersham, Gt. Blakenham
Yes Yes and Bramford
very little local employment
nsb Little
Finborough
51 None
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Stowmarket satellite
86
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Permanent shop (Not
Food), Food & drink,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(4),
childgroup(2), school,
daycare, meeting
place(2), information
service(3), recreation
Satellite to Eye, Rickinghall, Diss. Nearly
area(2), bus 6 days
whole settlement is conservation area and
Mellis
417 week, community service x
Yes x
Yes x
Yes Yes SLA
Post office, Food & drink,
accommodation,
environment, public
phone(2), mobile
Mendham
shop/service(5), school,
(51a Church
care home, meeting
& 51b
place(3), information
Withersdale
service(3), bus 2 days
Satellite to Harleston out of District. Both
Street
431 week, community service x
Yes x
x
Yes x
yes parts lie entirely within SLA
Permanent shop(2), post
office, petrol station,
other business(4), food &
drink(3), Environment(2),
Public phone(2), mobile
Shop/services(5),
childgroup(3), school,
Fills gap between Needham and Eye
surgery, pharmacy(2),
close to major transport route A140.
care home, meeting
Employment on airfield on other side
place(4), information
A140. Care required with siting additional
Mendlesham
services(4), recreation
employment opportunities not to drag
Dairy, builder, surgery, school,
(52a)
1328 area(5), bus 6 days
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes traffic into country lanes.
retail, retail, kennels, airfield estate.
87
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
week, community
services
Mendlesham
(52b Green))
11/2 mile south of Mendlesham with few
services of its own. Remove SB
Metfield
Permanent shop (general
Store - 1 community
shop) (2), post office(2),
petrol station, food &
drink, accommodation,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup(2), meeting
place - public house,
information service(3),
recreation area(2), bus limited bus service, 2
342 garages (repair)
Yes x
x
x
Mickfield
Permanent shop (Not
Food) (2), public phone,
mobile shop/service(4),
meeting place,
information service(4),
recreation area, bus 6
188 days week
x
x
Yes x
x
Satellite to Harleston out of District, also
Yes Yes Yes Fressingfield. Large conservation area
Satellite dependant on Debenham or
Yes Yes A140 accessible destinations.
88
nsb
Nettlestead
Norton (56a
Ixworth
Road, The
Street)
Norton 56b
Little Green
Mobile Shop/Service(1
the only mobile shop
Nettlestead has is milk
delivery, three weekly),
98 No Bus sevice
x
x
x
Permanent shop (Mace
convenience store), post
office, petrol station, food
& drink, environment,
public phone(2), mobile
shops/services(4),
childgroup(2), school,
daycare, pharmacy,
meeting places(5),
information services(4),
recreation areas(3), bus 3
days week, community
787 services
Yes Yes x
x
x
Yes x
Very small dependant on Bedfield,
Debenham, Framlingham
x
Very Small dependant on Somersham,
the only dependency with nearby
Somersham is their bus service and pub
x
x
x
x
Previously CS3 with 56b Little Green. .
Less facilities and worse access than
larger nearby settlements at Elmswell and
Thurston or Ixworth out of District - so not
Yes Yes Yes KSC.
Local Jobs
Location
x
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
x
Recreation
School
x
week and
more
Post
Office
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
nsb Monk
Soham
Public phone, mobile
shop/service(4),
information service(2),
recreation area,
160 community service
11/2 miles from Ixworth Road settlement
where all the facilities are. Remove SB.
89
Offton (59a
Church &
59b Place)
Yes x
Yes x
Yes Yes Satellite of Eye and close to Thorndon
x
Yes x
x
x
Satellite of Somersham entirely within
Yes SLA
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Occold
Food & Drink,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/services(7),
childgroups(2), school,
meeting place(2),
information services(3),
recreation areas(3), bus 6
days week, community
490 service
x
Food & drink(2), public
phone, mobile
shop/service(3), meeting
place, information
service(5), bus 6 days
356 week
x
no significant employers
90
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Old Newton
Permanent shop
(General Stores), Post
office, Food & Drink public house,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(5 - one
medicine delivery service
from Mendlesham and
Stowmarket),
childgroup(2), school Village Primary School,
currently over subscribed,
daycare, meeting
place(3), information
services(4 - including
Parish Magazine),
recreation area(4), bus 6
days week - 7 day per
week good bus services Stowmarket to Bury St
Edmunds, Stowmarket to
Diss, Service to Ipswich;
2.5 miles from
Stowmarket Railway
Station, 2 miles from
995 access to A14
Yes Yes x
Previously CS3. Close to with less
facilities than larger Haughley and
Stowupland also close to Stowmarket - so approx. 100 Jobs, mainly services
not KSC. However may be capable of
and a small amount of
Yes Yes Yes Yes absorbing small growth
manufacturing; ten working farms
91
Palgrave
Pettaugh
Yes x
No convenience store or school.
Population may be deceptive as Parish
Yes Yes includes 3 hectares of nursing home, etc.
drop
off
presc
riptio
n
servi
ce
Yes x
Previously CS3 but facilities have
Yes Yes dwindled and now largely satellite of Diss.
x
x
Yes Yes x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Onehouse
Permanent shop(2),
food& drink, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(3),
childgroup, care home,
meeting place(3),
information services(3),
recreation area(4), bus 6
947 days week
x
x
Petrol station, other
business(12),
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/services(4),
childgroups(2), school,
daycare, pharmacy, care
home, meeting places(3),
information services(4),
recreation area(3), bus 6
777 days week
x
Yes
Permanent shop (village
stores and post office),
public phone, mobile
shop/service(3), meeting
place - no village hall or
public meeting place
(mission hall is privately
owned and villagers are
denied use of it except for
elections and parish
202 council meetings),
Yes x
Small settlement clustered around cross- no employment, also see Comment
Yes roads. Satellite of Debenham
box
92
Redgrave
Food & Drink,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/services(5), meeting
place, information
services(3), recreation
areas(2), bus 6 days
week, community
553 services
Yes x
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Rattlesden
information services(3),
bus 6 days week - regular
but infrequent bus service
(timetabling means that
the bus is rarely used for
trips to Debenham,
Pettaugh's Key Service
Centre)
Permanent shop
(General Stores), post
office, petrol station, food
& drink(2), environment,
public phone(3), mobile
shop/services(4),
childgroups, school,
meeting places(4),
information services(4),
recreation area(3), bus 5
days week - service is
very limited, community
811 service
Yes Yes x
Self-contained settlement previously CS3.
3km from Woolpit and about 6 from
Stowmarket as crow flies. So capable
some small-scale development but not
Yes Yes Yes Yes KSC
Yes x
Attractive village nearly all of which is
conservation area. No shop or school.
Very close to Rickinghall on which it
Yes Yes seems to depend.
213 jobs
93
Redlingfield
110
Rickinghall
Inferior
384
(+14
32)
Rickinghall
Superior
797
(+10
19) As above
Yes x
x
x
x
Yes x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Pop
Parish
Services and
Facilities
Public Phone, Mobile
Shop/Service(3),
Information
Service(4),Recreation
area, Bus 1 day week
x
x
Permanent shop(3), Post
office, Market, Food &
Drink(2),
Accommodation,
Environment, Public
Phone(2), Mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup(2), daycare,
meeting place(2),
information service(3),
recreation area(4), bus 6
days week, community
service
Yes x
Verysmall satellite of Eye or maybe also
Stradbroke.
x
Yes Yes Yes Yes KSC when amalgamate with Botesdale
With Botesdale. Offices, retail,
business park a mile away; no
significant employers
x
Yes Yes Yes Yes KSC when amalgamate with Botesdale
no significant employers
94
Local Jobs
Like Gt. Bricett a Wattisham overspill and
though more than Gt Bricett, too remote
to grow for own sake. Keep as
Secondary village and talk direct to MOD
as they now require plan permission when
Yes Yes Yes Yes they need development.
67b
Wattisham
Airfield
nsb
Rishangles
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Ringshall
(67a
Ringshall
Stocks)
Permanent shop
(SPAR)*, Post office*, no
petrol station,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(4 - no
mobile shop),
childgroup(2 - no
childgroup), school,
meeting place(2),
information services(4),
recreation areas(3), bus 6
days week (*The Shop
and Post Office
mentioned is actually a
mile away and is part of
Wattisham Airfield - it is
not within walking
distance and anyway
there is no footway along
619 the road)
Yes Yes x
Retain SB and treat as nominal
secondary village as helps MOD planning
without allowing excessive growth.
Permanent Shop (Not
Food), Public Phone,
Mobile Shop/Service(3),
Information Service(7),
Bus 6 days week,
84 Community Service
x
x
x
Yes x
x
x
Hamlet south of Thorndon and Occold
dependant on Eye and Debenham locally
95
x
x
x
Local Jobs
x
Location
x
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
x
Recreation
School
x
week and
more
Post
Office
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
nsb Shelland 39 None
Hamlet close to Onehouse/Stowmarket
and Woolpit
Somersham
Permanent shop(General
Stores) (2), post office,
petrol station, market,
food & drink,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/serv(4),
childgroup(2), school,
meeting place(3),
information services(5),
recreation area(2), bus 6
713 days week, pub, garage Yes Yes x
Somersham has a school, pub and
garage, as well as a livery stable
and a farm. It is doubtful that any of
Previously CS3, very useful locally but
the above businesses could be
almost surrounded by SLA so growth
described as significant employers
would be difficult. Capable of taking
on their own, but collectively they
some small-scale development but 5km could be deemed as significant
from Bramford and Gt. Blakenham so not employers that rely on a vibrant and
Yes Yes Yes Yes KSC
sustainable community.
nsb Southolt
Food and Drink, Mobile
Shop/Service(5), Info
Serv(2), Recreat(1),
Comm Serv (com
68 car/minibus)
x
x
x
x
x
Yes x
Another of the small hamlets scattered
between Worlingworth and Eye.
96
Stonham
Aspal
Other business(20), Food
& drink(2), environment,
public phone, mobile
shop/service(6),
childgroup, school,
meeting place(2),
information service(4),
recreation area(4), bus 6
542 days week
x
Yes x
Small settlement on and disrupted by
A140. Locally considered in combination
with Thwaite and reasonably well serviced
for its size. However considered
Yes Yes Yes Yes objectively is a secondary village at best.
Yes x
Settlement spread out along the A1120
withStonham Barns half a mile up the
road. Policy would not want to encourage
enlargement of this out of town retail
Yes Yes centre
Yes x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Stoke Ash
Post office (some
convenience goods),
petrol station, food &
drink, public phone,
mobile
shop/service(4),school,
meeting place(2),
information service(4),
recreation area(2), bus 6
214 days week
x
97
Stonham
Parva
Food & Drink, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup, surgery,
meeting place,
information service(3),
recreation area(2), bus 6
315 days week
x
No shop, food & drink,
public phone, mobile
shop/service(4), care
home, information
service(3), bus 6 days
Stowlangtoft 246 week, no school
x
Yes x
No shop in any of the Stonhams and
geographically not linked to other
Stonhams with main settlement at
Forward Green therefore the school in S.
Aspal is too far for walking and other side
A140. Satellite of Stowupland and
Yes Yes Needham Market.
x
Yes Yes x
Stonhams used to be said to share
facilities but stores closed and looked at
objectively this is not sustainable
geographically. Part spread
uncomfortably along A140 and part down
Church Lane. Used to have convenience
Yes Yes goods in PO now closed.
x
x
x
x
x
Yes x
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Stonham
Earl (28
Forward
Green)
Petrol station, Food &
drink, environment, public
phone, mobile
shops/services(2),
childgroup, meeting
place(2), information
services, recreation
637 area(5), bus 6 days week x
Small settlement close to Ixworth, Badwell
Ash and Thurston
no significant employers
98
KSC close to Stowmarket but not
Yes Yes Yes Yes dependant on it.
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Permanent shop(5), post
office, petrol station(2),
other business(3), food &
Drink(4), environment,
Public phone(3), mobile
shop/services(4),
childgroup(3), school(2),
meeting places(4),
information services(5),
recreational area(7), bus
Stowupland 1962 7 days week
Yes Yes x
Schools, garage, post office, farm
shop, Charles Ind. Estate
99
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Permanent
Food shop
Schools, retail, leisure centre, fire
station, agricultural merchants,
chemist supplies; Stradbroke Parish
Council have concerns that there
are limited employment
opportunities. Employment in
Stradbroke is characterised by
many self-employed sole traders or
low paid part-time work. There are
no major employers within the
village. Current employers consist
of: Local shops and pubs, local
schools (only one teacher
employed in either school lives in
the village), Dog Food
Manufacturer, Long-Distance
Transport Company, offices of
company linked to farming,
swimming pool. Professional
Comparatively small for KSC but
employment opportunities are
important locally to North east district.
limited or non-existent and much of
Fills gap in that area where Fressingfield the work is part-time and/or low
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes and Laxfield also provide good services paid.
Stradbroke
Permanent shop (SPAR,
Landis)(7), post office,
petrol station, food&
drink(4), accommodation,
environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/services(5),
childgroup(2), schools(3),
surgery, pharmacy,
meeting place(6),
information services(5),
recreation area(6), bus 6
days week - transport is
almost all related to
school transport and
therefore only runs during
term times and not at
weekends or school
holidays; community
1221 services
Stuston
Permanent shop Farm
Shop not convenience),
petrol station (2), public
phone, mobile
shop/service(3),
information service(3),
recreation area, Bus 6
170 days week
Yes x
x
Yes x
Yes x
Dependant on Diss and maybe Eye
100
nsb
Tannington
Thorndon
Thornham
Magna
Public Phone, Mobile
Shop/Service(3),
Information Service, Bus
107 1 day week
x
Post office - has not
supplied food or drink for
some time, petrol station
- now no petrol station,
food & drink,
environment, public
phone, mobile shops/
services(6), childgroup,
school, meeting place,
information services(4),
571 bus 6 days week
x
Other business, Food &
Drink(2),
Accommodation,
Environmental, Public
Phone, Mobile
Shop/Service(6),
Childgroup, Daycare,
Meet Place, Information
Service (4), Recreation
116 area (3), Bus 6 days
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Syleham
Public phone, mobile
shop/service(5),childgrou
p,meeting place,
information service(4),
183 bus 1 day week
x
x
x
x
x
x
Employment opportunities: Farming
(7 known employees), Nursery/preschool, Environment Agency
(Waveney Drainage), Essex &
Half-way Syleham/ Hoxne and accessible Suffolk Water Treatment Works,
Yes to Diss
B&B/Holiday Let
x
x
x
x
x
x
Another small hamlet on outskirts of
Worlingworth
Yes x
Yes Yes x
P.O.and General Store for which school
could create viable footfall. Secondary
Yes Village
x
yes
yes
x
x
yes
Small hamlet adjacent to A140 and
serviced by Gislingham and Eye
101
Location
x
x
Very small hamlet, has never had SB
Local Jobs
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
x
Recreation
School
x
week and
more
Post
Office
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
x
week
nsb
Thornham
Parva
49 None
Public phone, Mobile
Shop/Service(2),
Information Service(3),
Recreation area, not sure
Thrandeston 134 public transport
x
x
x
Permanent shop(5), post
office, petrol station(3),
other business(40), food
& drink(4),
accommodation,
environment(3), public
phone(3), mobile
shop/service(6),
childgroup(3), school(2),
daycare, meeting
place(6), information
services(5), recreation
area(14), rail services 7
days week, bus service 6
days week, community
services(2), lack of a
Thurston
3166 Doctor's Surgery
Yes Yes x
x
?
x
x
Yes x
Small hamlet only merits SB to support
the conservation area encompassing
church and greens.
Close to BSE but so large and well
serviced, incl rail station, cannot deny
Yes Yes Yes Yes KSC status.
Schools, railway station, printers,
vets, hair dressers, retail and food.
102
Tostock
Other business(2), Food
& drink, public phone,
mobile shop/service(2),
childgroups(2), meeting
place, information
service(4), recreation
area(4), bus 6 days
414 week, community service x
WalshamLe-Willows
Permanent shop
(general, butcher,
baker)(3), other
business(3),market, food
& drink(2),
accommodation(2),
environment, public
phone(2), mobile
shop/services(4),
childgroup(2), school,
meeting place(4),
information services(4),
recreation area(5), bus 6
days week, community
1122 services(2)
Yes Yes x
x
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
x
week and
more
Post
Office
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
x
Thwaite
Petrol Station, Food and
drink, Public phone,
Mobile
Shop/Service(4),Informati
on Service(4),
Recreational area, Bus 6
132 days week
x
Small hamlet disrupted by A140, serviced
by Mendlesham 2 miles away
Yes x
Yes x
Yes x
Attractively laid out village with huge
conservation area, some employment but
few services. Traditionally serviced by
Yes Yes Elmswell and Woolpit and BSE.
Yes x
Previously CS3 retains a good level of
services, but would be small for KSC and
close to Stanton. Huge conservation area
and greens limit scope for expansion
beyond already planned. With Badwell
Ash useful provider of local services & 1ry
Yes Yes village but not KSC
103
x
x
x
Satellite of Stanton, Rickinghall and
Walsham. Set in SLA with big
Yes Yes Yes Yes conservation area
Westhorpe
Public phone, mobile
shop/service(4), care
home, meeting place,
information services(3),
recreation area(2), bus 6
days week, community
208 service
x
x
x
Yes x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Wattisfield
Permanent shop (not
food)(3), Post office,
Food & Drink(2),
Accommodation,
Environment, Public
Phones(2), Mobile
Shops/Serv(3), Meeting
Place(2), information
services(4),
Recreation(2), Bus 6
436 days week
Small linear hamlet close to Bacton and
Yes Yes difficult to access by road.
104
Petrol station, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup(2), school,
meeting place(2),
Wetheringse
information services(4),
tt (88a
recreation area, bus 6
Church)
627 days week
Wetheringse
tt (88b
Brockford
Street)
x
x
Phar
macy Yes x
Yes x
Yes x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Wetherden
Petrol station, food &
drink, public phone,
mobile shop/ services(5),
childgroup(2), pharmacy,
meeting place(2),
information services(3),
recreation(5), bus 6 days
557 week
x
Often seen as adjunct to Haughley but
equally near Elmswell and dependant on
Yes Yes both.
Previously CS3 but changes to services,
difficult access from A140 downgrade
Yes Yes significantly. Satellite of Mendlesham
1 Km from main settlement and disrupted
by A140. nsb
105
105 None
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Wickham
Skeith
Post office, public phone,
mobile shop/Services(4),
childgroup, meeting
place, information
services(3), recreation
300 area, bus 6 days week
x
x
x
Off A140, no school no shop. Satellite
Yes Yes Yes Yes Mendlesham and Bacton
Location
nsb Whitton
Local Jobs
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Satellite to Harleston (out of District), also
Yes Fressingfield.
Recreation
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
x
week and
more
Post
Office
School
x
Permanent
Food shop
x
Services and
Facilities
x
Pop
x
Parish
Permanent shop (Not
Convenience)(2), petrol
station, Food & Drink,
public phone(2), mobile
shop/service(3),
Weybread
childgroup, meeting
(89a Church
place(2), information
& 89b
service(3), bus 3 days
Street)
392 week
x
Small area on border of Ipswich part of
IPA tro be planned accordingly.
106
Yes x
Yes x
Satellite of Stradbroke. Only Secondary
Village on basis of the school. It would be
interesting to know what the schools
Yes Yes catchment area was.
Willisham
Tye
Food & Drink, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(3),
information, service(3),
268 bus 6 days week
x
Yes x
x
Wingfield
(93 Church)
Public phone, mobile
shop/ service(5), meeting
place, information
service(3), recreation
318 area, bus 2 days week
x
Satellite to Harleston out of District, also
Fressingfield. No school, convenience
Yes Yes store or easy public transport
Environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(3), meet
place, information
service(3), recreation
nsb Winston 150 area, Bus 6 days week
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Yes x
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Wilby
Permanent shop (Not
Convenience) , food &
drink, environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(5),
childgroup, school,
meeting place,
information service(4),
recreation area, bus 6
231 days week
x
Half-way Somersham and Needham, may
also be small Wattisham effect
Yes Yes Subsidiary of Debenham
107
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Permanent shop(7), post
office, petrol station,
other business(4 garage: no longer sells
petrol, just cars), Food &
Drink(3),
Accommodation(2),
Environment, public
phone(2), mobile
shop/service(4),
childgroup(3), school,
surgery(3), pharmacy,
care home, meeting
place(4), information
service(6), recreation
Previously CS3. Large village, well
Woolpit (94a
area(5), bus 6 days
serviced with some complementing
Church
week, community
Elmswell/ Thurston so KSC. However
Green)
1968 service(2)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes remove SB from Woolpit Green
Woolpit 94b
Heath,
Borley
Green
Remove SB
Worlingwort
h (95a
Church)
671
Remove SB
Ind Estate, retail, food, PO, petrol,
surgery.
108
x
x
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
2 - recycling paperbank
and 3 bottle banks at the
Community Centre,
public phone, mobile
shop/service(3 - 2 milk
and raw fish), childgroup
(2 - playgroup (Under 5s)
once per week), school,
meeting place Community Centre,
information services(3 Benefice newsletter
(monthly), Community
Centre newsletter (4 per
year), Noticeboard),
recreation areas(3 - only
two: Community Centre playing field and
children's play area), bus
2 days week - only one
day a week and only
once that day, community
services(2 - mobile library
Worlingwort
and Community Bus
h (95b Shop
(voluntary service 5 days
Street
671 a week))
x
Yes x
Permanent shop (1 -and
under threat), post office only food shop in
wortham is tied to the
post office and both are
Wortham
637 considered likely to close Yes Yes x
Local employment opportunities:
one of Worlingworth's two major
employers in the parish, Igrox Ltd.
(pest control), has relocated its
office and employees to Great
Blakenham. This leaves
Worlingworth with Tuckwell's (Farm
Machinery) as the only major
Important for agricultural services in the employer and, indeed, their
past. Village straggles over 3 kilometres operations are spread evenly at
without sense of a coherent centre.
bases across South Suffolk and
Services have dwindled and population
North Essex. This further reduces
now must look to Stradbroke or
the opportunities for local
Yes Yes Debenham for more than Bedfield shop. employment in Worlingworth.
Previously CS3. However while some
small development will help retain local
services, does not merit KSC with
Yes Yes Yes Yes Botesdale and Diss 3-5 km away.
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Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
Recreation
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
School
Permanent
Food shop
Pop
Parish
Services and
Facilities
when the current Post
Office consultation is
completed , food &
drink(2 - if food
shop+post office is closed
due to the Post Office
consultation, the Dolphin
Inn public house will be
the only retail outlet in
Wortham; future of the
tea shop also uncertain),
accommodation,
environment, public
phone(3), mobile
shop/service - 3 mobile
shops including the
milkman, the mobile
library and a fish vendor most of them do not visit
all parts of the village),
childgroup(2), school,
meeting place(3),
information services(3),
recreation area ( 8 - four
commons, one playing
field, one bowling green,
one children's playground
and one tennis court),
bus 6 days week
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x
x
Yes x
yes
Local Jobs
Location
Village Hall/
Meeting place
x
Recreation
x
week and
more
Post
Office
Surgery
(permanent/m
Busobile)
5 days a
Yaxley
Post office, Food &
drink(2), environment,
public phone, mobile
shop/service(6),childgrou
p - in the neighbouring
village of Mellis (Yaxley &
Mellis Pre school), care
home, meeting place,
information services(3),
426 bus 6 days week
x
School
Permanent
Food shop
Services and
Facilities
Pop
Parish
Wyverstone
Environment, public
phone, mobile
shop/service(5), meeting
place, information
service(3), recreation
382 area(2), bus 6 days week x
Yes Yes Satellite of Bacton
Yes x
yes
Recently popular target for development.
But c.2km from Eye and no need for
service centre in this area. No local
school, no shop
The Eye Airfield Industrial site
offers a reasonable level of
employment within close proximity
to Yaxley.
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Appendix D: Example Parish Profile Bramford
Parish Profiles can be obtained separately from Mid Suffolk District Council.
BRAMFORD
VILLAGE PROFILE
POPULATION PROFILE
Population: 2,386
Number of Households: 1,027
Number of Children: 397
Number of Elderly Persons: 454
Number of Unemployed: 41
Number of households without a car: 153 (14.9%)
Number of households with 2 or more cars: 421 (41%)
[Source: 2001 Census]
A Key Service Centre village of significant size, and located within the
‘HavenGateway’. Bramford’s population has decreased since the 1991 Census,
where the population count stood at 2,458. The numbers of children has decreased.
Bramford has seen little major housing development in recent years, the bulk of the
“new” estates were built late 1960s-early 1980s. Although Bramford is very close to
Ipswich (it is seperated by the A14 bypass), the village has retained much of its own
identity and in terms of amenities is very well catered for.
SHOPS AND OTHER SERVICES
PERMANENT SHOPS: 4
* Co-op Foodstore: General Grocery Store, The Street.
* Bramford Village News: Newsagents & Stationary Shop, The Street.
* West End Carpets, The Street.
* Bramford Pharmacy: Chemists, The Street.
OTHER BUSINESSES: 3
* John Keeble Car Sales, Ship Lane.
* Suffolk Electrical Services, The Street.
* MJ Bardwell: Building Construction Contractors, main office in The Street.
POST OFFICE: 1
* Sub P.O. located within Co-op Foodstore.
note: The old dedicated Post Office shop in The Street is now closed, replaced by
the above.
FOOD AND DRINK: 2 PH, 1 Takeaway
* The Angel Inn, Public House serving meals, The Street.
* The Cock, Public House serving meals, The Street.
* Hotel.
* Bramford Fish Bar, Gippingstone Road.
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ENVIRONMENT: 2 Recycling points.
* Fraser Road playing field car park: Glass Banks.
* Ship Lane: Glass, Paper and Clothing Banks.
OTHER SERVICES: 1
* Public Telephones (X2). These are located at Paper Mill Lane and Opposite Co-op
Foodstore.
MOBILE SHOPS AND SERVICES: 4
* Food Shop (not ice-cream): 1 round weekly.
* Milk Delivery: 2 rounds daily, to different parts of village?
* Newspaper Delivery: 2 rounds daily, to different parts of village?
* Refuse Collection: Every Friday, Twinbin alternate weeks.
CHILDCARE, EDUCATION AND DAYCARE
CHILD GROUPS: 1
*Bramford Pre-School Playgroup, sessional daycare at primary school, 5 days per
week (includes afternoons), 35 children on roll (Ofsted 2004).
SCHOOL: 1
*Bramford CEVC Primary School, Duckamere. 205 pupils on roll (Ofsted 2005).
DAYCARE GROUPS: 1
*Daycare Group for elderly, may be held at Cherryfields, Gippingstone Road.
MEDICAL FACILITIES
PHARMACIES: 1
*Bramford Pharmacy, The Street, unconnected to a GP Surgery.
HOMES: 1
*Cherryfields, Elderly Convalescent Home, Gippingstone Road.
PLACES OF WORSHIP
CHURCHES & CHAPELS: 2
*St Mary The Virgin CoE (Anglican) Church, Minister resident in Parish.
*Bramford Methodist Church, The Street.
RECREATION FACILITIES
MEETING PLACES: 5
*Loraine Victory Hall, multi-purpose village hall with entertainment licence.
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Ship Lane.
*Church Hall.
*Royal British Legion Clubhouse, The Street, available to general public.
*Primary School Hall, available to general public.
*Scout Hall, Ship Lane.
INFORMATION SERVICES: 4
*Mobile Library. Alternate Mondays, stops at Angel PH, Paper Mill Lane and St
Mary’s
Close. Also visits on alternate Tuesdays, stopping at Packard Place.
*Village Newsletter.
*Church Newsletter.
*Village Notice Boards (X4)
RECREATION AREAS: 6
*Bramford Village Green/Common? Could be the strip alongside River Gipping.
*Bowling Green, within Fraser Road playing field area, north of village.
*Tennis Court, along side Bowling Green.
*Swimming Pool, location currently unknown.
*Picnic Area, with public toilets and car parking, Ship Lane alongside railway.
*Children’s Play Area, with play equipment, north side of Acton Road.
CLUBS AND SOCIETIES
CHURCH GROUPS: 4
*Sunday Schools (X2).
*Bramford Church Choir, mixed ages?
*Church Bellringers.
SPORTS CLUBS: 6
*Bramford Football Club, mixed ages.
*Outdoor Bowls Club, held at Fraser Road Bowling Green.
*Carpet Bowls, held in Village Hall.
*Bramford Tennis Club, mixed singles/doubles, tournaments/friendlies. Fraser Road.
Club has own website.
*Darts Teams (X2). Angel Inn and Bramford Cock pub teams.
WOMENS GROUPS: 1
*Bramford WI. Meets in Victory Hall. 2nd Monday of each month. 7:30pm.
YOUTH ORGANISATIONS: 7
*1st Bramford Scout Group. Boys Groups: Beavers/Cubs/Scouts/Ventures.
Girls Groups: Brownies/Guides/Rainbows. All meet in Scout Hall, Ship Lane.
MUSIC: 2
*Ballroom Dancing.
*Lait Dance Club.
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MISCELLANEOUS: 3
*Bramford Local History Group, monthly meets at the Church Room, Ship Lane.
*Elderly Persons Recreational Club.
*British Legion.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
BUS SERVICES: Regular services 7 days per week.
*Galloways Service 110. Mendlesham-Bramford-Ipswich. Monday to Saturday.
*Chambers Service 111. Bildeston-Bramford-Ipswich. Monday to Saturday.
*Galloways Service 87A/87B. Stowmarket-Ipswich. Monday to Saturday Evenings.
*First EC Service 88B/87B. Stowmarket-Ipswich. Sundays.
EMERGENCY SERVICES
*Police Station, not permanently staffed. Location unknown.
*St John’s Ambulance Station, Duckamere.
LOCAL EMPLOYMENT
* No significant employment.
* Primary Care Trust Offices
Note: some small employment may be generated from the mixed use development
proposed at Paper Mill Lane, Bramford, if approved.
VILLAGE WEBSITE
www. Bramford-village.co.uk
This was the primary information source.
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