Council should include more small and meduim sites for local house builders many of which were submitted for consideration at Call for Sites stage and have been summarily discounted in favour of large sites for volume housbuilders. Each has their place and more small and medium sites should be allocated.

Paragraph 68 of the NPPF sets out that small and medium sized sites can make an important contribution to meeting the housing requirement of an area, and are often built-out relatively quickly. To promote the development of a good mix of sites local planning authorities should identify, through the development plan and brownfield registers, land to accommodate at least 10% of their housing requirement on sites no larger than one hectare; unless it can be shown, through the preparation of relevant planpolicies, that there are strong reasons why this 10% target cannot be achieved