Object
Revised Development Strategy
Representation ID: 63489
Received: 29/07/2013
Respondent: Friends of the Earth
Representation Summary:
-Upon completing the Joint Housing Market Assessment, the number of homes required in the District should be stated more clearly. The figures in the consultation document are confusing.
-Housing numbers are very dependent on employment forecasts which are at best very variable. Section 4.1.9 specifically highlights the sensitivity of employment-led population projections. Understand the logic explained in paragraph 4.1.10 but development and investment should be concentrate in the major urban centres of the region and therefore local growth rate for the District should be much lower, not higher than that of the forecast growth rate for the region.
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