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BBC urgently needs to take a position on providing residents who do not have their own off-street parking with the ability to access their own residential electrical power supply in order to charge their own electric vehicles when parked on public streets. Providing public or commercial electric power supply is not the answer, since this discriminates against those who do not have off-street parking.

Electric charging points should be provided at all new homes and business premises, homes should
be built to a high standard and well insulated (but still with access to loft storage space without
compromising the insulation), heating should use ground / air source heat pumps / district or other
low carbon heating, solar panels should be incorporated into the designs, bicycle parking should be
provided, developments should include considerable green spaces, wooded areas and biodiversity
gain of at least 20%. A very high level of flood protection should be included as this is likely to
become an increasing issue.

You cannot put thousands of new homes out in the villages and then expect residents to shift their methods of travel. Again, your policies are at odds with each other.

I comment as follows:
Electric charging points should be provided at all new homes and business premises, homes should be built to a high standard and well insulated, heating should use ground / air source heat pumps / district heating, solar panels should be incorporated into the designs, bicycle parking should be provided, developments should include considerable green spaces, wooded areas and biodiversity gain of at least 20%.
A very high level of flood protection should be included as this is likely to become an increasing issue. It was reported today (1 September) that there has been a large increase in weather disasters over the past 5 decades (BBC News). We are extremely concerned that development at site 977 (Dennybrook) will have a profound effect on Honeydon Brook, which already floods in Honeydon during the winter.

Pedestrians, cyclists, and scooter users including electric powered scooters must be encouraged.
If the council is serious about climate change the must act to enable travel other than by car for work, retail, and leisure to be a serious and workable option.
This could also include improving paving and access for right of ways and bridleways.
Especially neglected access such as bumpy lane in Shortstown.