There is little justification for this level of growth in the documents produced by WDC and it appears that this may have been chosen to enable the plan to be accepted by Central Planning rather than to reflect the District or Local wishes.
The level of growth of housing should be directly linked to the growth of employment. If houses through the District are built without extra jobs being available locally for the occupants then this will cause additional requirements for transport and inevitably produce more pollution.
As the level of growth of the British economy is currently being downgraded it seems reasonable that the level of growth of housing should not be a fixed number but related to the economy. If this is not possible then a revision of the numbers in the plan should be undertaken at regular intervals
The level of growth should take account of houses built from 2011 (and perhaps earlier) and that the growth - especially in the villages - should be phased over the years of the Local Plan