Support Lutterworth as a Key Centre suitable for growth
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The Council's spatial strategy for distribution of growth is supported. Harborough District Council has arrived at the most appropriate strategy, in accordance with national policy, to deliver the development requirements of the area. The spatial strategy closely aligns with the objectives of higher level strategic plans such as the Strategic Growth Plan and the Strategic Economic Plan.

Leicester & Leicestershire's emerging Strategic Growth Plan (SGP) recognises the M1 as a major corridor and one of the plan's objectives is to maximise the potential of transportation corridors to deliver sustainable development and enable the creation of an integrated public transport network. Furthermore, the spatial options include identifying development through growth corridors and employment led growth. Harborough Local Plan's settlement hierarchy recognises Lutterworth as a Key Centre with capacity to expand and facilities to support growth. The town's location is unique within the district, being close to the M1 and A5 corridors and close to existing and planned employment growth. Therefore, development in this area would accord with the emerging SGP.

In this context, the strategy supports the development of further appropriate and developable land around Lutterworth. Therefore, as explained in representations submitted to this Local Plan elsewhere, Land South of Lutterworth Road fits in with the overall spatial strategy