Scenario 5: Rural Dispersal

This option would mean distributing growth widely across the rural area by encouraging development at many existing settlements and potentially other rural locations (such as redundant industrial sites or farm complexes). This would mean the smallest of hamlets and villages could contribute to meeting overall development needs, even where they are not currently recognised in the JCS settlement hierarchy as Rural Service Centres or Service Villages.

As with all options, this includes the urban capacity of Gloucester and Cheltenham as a starting point.