Yes

Draft Local Plan Review

Representation ID: 1717

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Andrew Baynes

Representation Summary:

The Draft Local Plan is driven by a statutory requirement to deliver one. However, it is a tawdry document, that will deliver great profit to developers. What it won't deliver, particularly from a Shirley perspective, is an improved quality of life.

Instead, the future it promises is of increased congestion, increased demand for services, banal high-density development. It offers little in the way of vision, of improvement - certainly to Shirley.

Opportunities for change aren't being seized; instead we're offered piecemeal nibbling away at open space and distinctiveness. A shabby little plan of pusillanimity.

Full text:

The Draft Local Plan is driven by a statutory requirement to deliver one. However, it is a tawdry document, that will deliver great profit to developers. What it won't deliver, particularly from a Shirley perspective, is an improved quality of life.

Instead, the future it promises is of increased congestion, increased demand for services, banal high-density development. It offers little in the way of vision, of improvement - certainly to Shirley.

Opportunities for change aren't being seized; instead we're offered piecemeal nibbling away at open space and distinctiveness. A shabby little plan of pusillanimity.