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Representation ID: 5899

Received: 08/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Tony Sanders

I have a number of concerns and feel this is not being handled well.
1. The concept of decimating countryside, replacing food crop fields with housing and businesses and that of
turning villages into towns (also with insufficient infrastructure) I find distressing.
2. Accordingly, I believe no greenfield site should be touched at all, anywhere, until all brownfield sites are fully
utilized.
3. The creation of new villages and the expansion of existing villages is environmentally far more damaging than the increase in size of the existing town (as noted in your Sustainability Appraisal) because the new people
attracted will travel from the villages to towns in order to use the facilities that don’t (and can’t) exist in villages.
4. I chose to live in a village. Where do I have to move to in the UK to remain in one where there are not constant
threats turn the village into a town?
5. This plan seems to have surfaced in order to support the flawed East-West rail project.
6. The letter that was delivered with 4 ‘favoured’ options is designed to take attention away from limiting the further developments to the existing town by leaving that option out.
7. The ‘call for sites’ contains the plots of land that the landowners would like to be developed in order to achieve massive property value gains – they are NOT those that are best for the benefit of the population of the areas.
8. The origin of this new plan I believe has been concocted before the effects of Brexit and Covid-19 – both of which have reduced the previously projected requirements for development. A significant number of people have left the UK (hence the current staff shortages in drivers and carers for example) and many will now work from home.
I am very disheartened by this plan, following so soon after the 2030 plan, which I’d expected to be the end of the bad changes being made to my village. I have worrying about expansion plans now, including those threatened to be built in the beautiful countryside here, for well over 4 years and feel that moving into this region was probably a mistake.