Object
Publication Draft
Representation ID: 66381
Received: 25/06/2014
Respondent: Mr Robert Price
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Representation Summary:
The calculation of housing numbers is highly speculative and inevitably based on poor quality evidence and data. Another equally competant assessment reached a figure of 5,500 rather than 12,900. Given development pressure for greenfield sites it would be safer to plan for alower figure. This could be revised upwards if need demonstrated during the 15 year period. The recently published ONS projections show a 29% reduction on the revious estimate showing the need for caution.
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