Planning permission will be refused for a building which creates or adds to a ribbon of development in the countryside.
An exception will be permitted for the development of a small gap site sufficient to accommodate only one dwelling within an otherwise substantial and continuously built up frontage and provided this respects the existing development pattern along the frontage in terms of size, scale, siting and plot size, meets the General Policy and accords with other provisions of the LDP.
For the purpose of this policy the definition of a substantial and built up frontage includes a line of three or more substantial buildings with a common frontage to a road, footpath or private lane served by individual accesses and visually linked when viewed from that road, footpath or private lane.