Comment

Representation ID: 7055

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: Warwick and Leamington Green Party

Greater support needed for agricultural industries. Developments must be allowed to stimulate local food economy.
Farmland not merely aesthetic consideration. Farmland is scarce, valuable resource that must be protected for food production. Only allow housing on agricultural land for people who work on land. Restrict change of use of buildings from Agricultural / industrial into residential, and conversion of multiple dwellings into single.
Our rural communities often lack affordable housing, but impossible to impose affordable housing requirement on single developments. Advocates affordable housing levy, based on 10% of development completion value.