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Representation ID: 48990

Received: 16/10/2012

Respondent: Friends of the Earth

Development based on a supposed need for economic growth. Growth per se is unnecessary and unsustainable for a stable economy.
Less land is needed to provide similar numbers of jobs. The figures suggest that there is little need to allocate more employment land.
B1 uses require smaller buildings for the same floorspace as B2 and B8 uses. Has this been allowed for?
Gateway: development and investment should be concentrated on the regeneration of urban centres - there are suitable brownfield sites in Coventry where development could be located rather in the Green Belt. Support paragraph 8.21 that 'further work is needed to clarify this figure in relation to more up to date economic and demographic projections and to examine the impact of potential development at the Coventry and Warwickshire Gateway site'