Object

Preferred Site Allocations 2018

Representation ID: 22147

Received: 21/06/2018

Respondent: Mr David Harman

Representation Summary:

The over dependence on precious green belt is equally abhorrent, which can only be to bribe the developers by doubling the profits that they will make. Not a single hectare of green belt land should be taken until the very last fragment of brown field is exhausted. It should not matter who the owner of the brown field land is, if it is being sat on by landowners waiting for better prices then that is what compulsory purchase is for.

Full text:

I object at a fundamental level to the Draft plan in its present form. The plan completely fails to take into account the infrastructure demands that the building programme would have.
You will say that planning law does not include such 'trivia' as roads, hospitals, GP Surgeries, school places, power supplies, water supplies, not to mention digital communications facilities that the Government claims to be so interested in. This nonsense position, though possibly accurate, will generate a total disaster should the Council be mad enough to implement the Draft Plan.

The over dependence on precious green belt is equally abhorrent, which can only be to bribe the developers by doubling the profits that they will make. Not a single hectare of green belt land should be taken until the very last fragment of brown field is exhausted. It should not matter who the owner of the brown field land is, if it is being sat on by landowners waiting for better prices then that is what compulsory purchase is for.
Please rethink the Draft Plan to make it less disastrous for the Borough.