Object

Representation ID: 7675

Received: 23/09/2009

Respondent: Ray Bullen

Significant areas of employment land have been vacant for last economic cycle. Insufficient demand for further employment.
Types of employment are changing to high technology based which is more suitable for mixed development. Better opportunities for shorter journeys to work reducing transport/parking needs. Allows better use of land with multi-storey provision giving more jobs/ha. can be more acceptable to town centre. Little benefit in more warehousing - gives few low grade jobs/ha. Existing poorly used employment land should be comprehensively planned to give high return jobs/ha, improving brownfield sites and relaxing demand on agricultural land. Agriculture hardly gets a mention.