Issues and Options

If the proximity between home, town and work were condensed people would be able to get around more on foot or bicycle. A lot more people cycle for fitness these days but commuting by bike isn't that common - it's not accepted like it is in The Netherlands. Perhaps if all new workplaces were forced to include changing rooms and showers as well as cycle racks more people would be prepared to switch.

Current policies do not protect or enhance the natural environment. All the current proposals in this consultation document point to growth at all costs, particularly in the countryside. This is completely wrong: stop developing in the villages and on greenfield sites until all the brownfield land has been re-developed. Regenerating brownfield land in a sustainable manner should be the entire focus of the plan.

To encourage access to green spaces don't build on them in the first place.

The damage to the environment has already been done south of the town: what you've done to the green space there is shameful and two wrongs don't make a right so it would be unforgiveable to do the same to the north. Finish what you started before you set about developing in other areas.