I hope that that is an indication of the sort of little community we are discussing, a straggling village along 1·2 miles of road.
We cannot afford to let this small island become a mass of straggling villages, one adjacent to the other.
We know that many parishes are very straggling and a parish might be almost urban in one corner.
But we must put an end to this straggling, piecemeal destruction of our beautiful villages.
To suggest that that is straggling and ribbon development is going a little far.
It is this combination of an appearance of a straggling village and monotony of building which produces this not altogether satisfactory appearance.
There unexpectedly hove in sight a very large and straggling fleet.
The straggling nature of the buildings here would make it a very heavy burden on the local authority.