Support

Representation ID: 6362

Received: 13/09/2021

Respondent: Mr John Orchard

I wish to record my full support for this policy. The concerns that I have relate to the uniformity of its application and the absence of comment about enforceability.

Similarly well intentioned policies have been produced in local plans, and indeed in the NPPF, only to be over-ridden by local decision-makers based on other less well intentioned motives.

The Town Centre First policy is a great example where right across the country this has been systematically ignored where large corporations have persuaded planners about the righteousness of their particular plans and how they ought to be found a means of ignoring the policy.

With the apparent pressures on planners to build housing, it can be readily understood how a potential developer may appear reluctant to build without the assurance that this is policy that can be fudged.