Object

Representation ID: 6407

Received: 13/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Steven Kent

This is understood. Detailed responses are set out below. One overriding objection is that the Pandemic has shifted a large number of the criteria for planning. It is not clear how work and social patterns will evolve in a post pandemic world. What is clear is that trends that were underway pre pandemic have been accelerated. Increased working from home and an increase in online retail will shift traffic away from town and city centres. We must therefore focus planning on improving the utility of our town and city centres and develop the brownfield sites in those centres rather than continue to unsustainably build on open countryside.