Object

Representation ID: 1361

Received: 18/08/2009

Respondent: Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

Agent: DNS Planning and Design Consultants

The strategic objective for town centres says that suitable land can be developed for retail, leisure, and offices uses to be meet future needs. There is no objection to these objections but it is merely queried by housing does not feature in them
Why cannot town centre apartments form part of this mixed-use strategy? Indeed apartments near to offices, leisure and shopping is a sustainable objective as it reduces the need to travel by car, or indeed to own a car.