Very comprehensive letter sent detailing the following:-Ship canal and transport links, Infrastructure developments, Housing completions, affordable housing, demographics, transport communications, sustainability and climate emergency. In conclusion - While I welcome many of the changes proposed in the new Plan, it can only be a starting point, and the devil is the detail, or lack of it. Unless there is a radical change in the approach to infrastructure development and a different funding approach (for instance, as in the historical New Towns policies) through local or central government, it seems unlikely that private industry will be able to fulfil needs on the proposed timescales. If the plan is overly ambitious regarding housing completions it will soon be deemed out of date. Given all the other uncertainties in these times, e.g. Brexit, Covid and recruitment of hauliers on which much of the Warrington industrial base relies, there is a strong rationale and clear justification to take a cautious approach to growth. The plan could be reviewed early in the plan period and additional sites allocated if completion numbers continually buck the historical long term trend. On this basis any significant release of Green Belt land at this time is premature and removes the focus from the existing urban areas which would benefit more from realistic growth proposals.
Very comprehensive letter sent detailing the following:-Ship canal and transport links, Infrastructure developments, Housing completions, affordable housing, demographics, transport communications, sustainability and climate emergency. In conclusion - While I welcome many of the changes proposed in the new Plan, it can only be a starting point, and the devil is the detail, or lack of it. Unless there is a radical change in the approach to infrastructure development and a different funding approach (for instance, as in the historical New Towns policies) through local or central government, it seems unlikely that private industry will be able to fulfil needs on the proposed timescales. If the plan is overly ambitious regarding housing completions it will soon be deemed out of date. Given all the other uncertainties in these times, e.g. Brexit, Covid and recruitment of hauliers on which much of the Warrington industrial base relies, there is a strong rationale and clear justification to take a cautious approach to growth. The plan could be reviewed early in the plan period and additional sites allocated if completion numbers continually buck the historical long term trend. On this basis any significant release of Green Belt land at this time is premature and removes the focus from the existing urban areas which would benefit more from realistic growth proposals.