Settlement Hierarchy

The Council have produced a Settlement Hierarchy as part of the evidence base for the Local Development Framework. Hart District contains a number of towns and villages that vary in size. It is useful for plan-making purposes to group those settlements into a hierarchy based on an understanding of their current size and level of service provision.

It should be noted that the hierarchy is not a spatial strategy and does not dictate the levels of growth that will go to different settlements. It is a hierarchy based on the settlements as they are now, rather than as they might look in the future.

Please note that this is a revision of the original version published in August 2010.  This revised version amends the settlement hierarchy on page 15 by including Dogmersfield and Long Sutton within Tier 4 - Main Villages.

• Settlement Hierarchy LDF Background Paper (as amended Aug 2010)

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Posted 29 January 2010
Updated 06 July 2011