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Challenges for Shepton Mallet
The Neighbourhood Plan seeks to address, as far as is possible, the challenges that face the community of Shepton Mallet. In summary these challenges are:
- Ensuring strategic developments identified in the Mendip Local Plan are integrated into the existing community of Shepton Mallet so they do not function as separate from the existing communities.
- Ensuring the strategic developments do not look and feel like ‘bolt-ons’ to the existing community by embracing the best examples of local design and layout.
- Recognising that alternatives to the private car as a means of travel, need to be provided for and their use encouraged, particularly in relation to walking and cycling.
- Ensuring the growth in population arising from new development does not put an unacceptable strain on existing community infrastructure; Instead, new development should, where necessary, contribute to the expansion of community infrastructure to address needs.
- Protecting the significant green spaces, views and biodiversity assets in the neighbourhood area, provide new green and blue infrastructure and provide new accessible green space for the growing population.