Object

Representation ID: 7106

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: The Warwick Society

Underlying theme of Strategy is rapid development of employment, retailing, tourism and housing. Sustainability seen only as a qualification - strategic objective 19 - to the nature of new development (and the proposed pattern of development actually makes this objective unachievable) rather than being itself the vital objective. The government commitment to reducing CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050 should be Strategy's overriding objective. If it remains absent, environmental and economic consequences (the latter demonstrated by the Stern Report) would threaten not just characteristics that Society defends but standard of living of all District's residents.