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Representation ID: 7726

Received: 23/09/2009

Respondent: Ray Bullen

The effect of adding 10800 homes to the stock of 55,033 households, in WDC as registered in the 2001 census - a 19.62% increase - is to require towns to expand beyond their design capacity for traffic, medical, social and educational facilities in the vain hope that by developer deals or planning requirements in giving permissions that these missing bits will magically appear. Some will happen, but development is a business and it must turn a profit to survive. That means that such costs would need to be passed on to the housing customer that buys the house. Add to the equation the affordable housing requirement of whatever percentage then it will be normal house purchasers that will get higher than necessary prices meaning that house prices become less affordable. As new house prices rise, prices for old houses rise with them and the market gets out of control.