If further development is planned then the infrastructure needs to be improved first surely. The roads, water neutrality, schooling, public transport and doctors surgeries are all strained in this area at present. Further development will only exasperate this.

The North of the Plan Area is primarily rural in character with diverse landscapes, rich cultural and heritage assets and a number of dispersed settlements, some of which are relatively isolated and served by narrow lanes with limited public transport.

Please see above. Your own description details the isolated nature of the communities here in the North and of the limited public transport and narrow lanes. How on earth could you consider planning new developments of houses when the local infrastructure in place at the moment is not sufficient to sustain them ??