St Edmundsbury Core Strategy (December 2010)

five shops (including good convenience shop in garage), one pub, a school and apetrol station. Great Barton only has limited employment opportunities but it isvery close to Bury St Edmunds with a decent bus service to the town.Great & Little Thurlow7.31 Great and Little Thurlow have a combined population of 951; they share aprimary school and shop, and have a village hall and pub. There are very fewlocal employment opportunities, apart from those provided by the Thurlow Estate.There is a poor bus service to the villages.Great & Little Whelnetham7.32 Great & Little Whelnetham has a reasonable level of services although theprimary school is some way from the settlement boundary. It has a reasonablyhigh level of local employment opportunities and good bus service to Bury StEdmunds. Its population is 1,014.Hopton7.33 Hopton has a population of 627 and good range of services and facilities,including a doctors and a dentist, but lacks a good bus service to Bury StEdmunds.Hundon7.34 Hundon has a population of 1061. The village has very few localemployment opportunities and a limited bus service to Haverhill, but does have aprimary school, community shop, two pubs and a community centre.Ingham7.35 Ingham is the smallest Local Service Centre with a population of 419. Itlacks a primary school, but has a shop and post office and good level of localemployment opportunities. Considering its proximity to Bury St Edmunds, andthat it is on a main road, the village has a poor bus service.Risby7.36 Risby is located close to Bury St Edmunds and has a population of 829. Itdoes not have any primary health care facilities or convenience shop, althoughrecently (March 2009) the farm shop has started stocking convenience goods.The bus service to Bury St Edmunds is not considered to be „frequent‟. At the timeof the Core Strategy Preferred Options Consultation we suggested that Risbywould be suitable as a Key Service Centre. Results of the previous consultationand additional evidence based work has resulted in Risby being reclassified as aLocal Service Centre and so will take a smaller scale of development thanoriginally proposed.Rougham7.37 Rougham has a pub, village hall, shop and post office, and primary school,although this is some distance from the main settlement. It has a population of1,158. Within the parish boundary is Rougham Airfield which hosts many publicevents but this is outside the current housing settlement boundary.Wickhambrook7.38 Wickhambrook is located on the B1063 road to Newmarket, less than a milewest of the A143, 10.5 miles from Bury St Edmunds and 9 miles from Haverhill.77