The proposed plan in the main pushes forward green belt area's as preferred housing locations even though in 2012 most of these area's were seen as not being viable for housing due to being green belt. The governments election pledge was that green belt will be protected, articles such as this https://www.gov.uk/government/news/councils-must-protect-our-precious-green-belt-land can be found with ease. It is concerning than in as little as 4 yrs the council seems to have done a 180 degree turn. I realise that the method of calculating housing needs was rejected and was required to be recalculated but surely the original finding should still be taken in to account.

Some of the proposed plans are on ribbons of green belt land on the outskirts of existing development. Development on these ribbons will just promote urban sprawl. You only need to look at the history maps on google earth to see that this has been an ongoing issue but had slowed down in recent times.

It would appear that the need for extra housing is seen as one of the 'very special circumstances'. This is a term that appears a lot of times in the document. I can not see that an ongoing issue of a growing population is a special circumstance as it would appear to be put forward. In fact it could be argued that the ongoing problem with supply and increasing cost of housing will eventually put a break on the rampant population growth!

It also worries me that developers interests are being taken in to account. Why are the council concerned about their interests. It is in the developers interests to push through as much development as they can as quickly as they can and obtain as much land as they can. The developers should be fighting between themselves for work to provide good quality housing, well planned and at realistic costs.

I am also concerned that what seems like more flexibility on the use of green belt will enable developers to push the council and government ministers to release the land for development where in the past this would not happen.

One more point, is there any financial incentive for the council to allow development on green belt. Does the government provide any kind of grant for each house built ? I asked because there are many articles claiming that although the government say green belt should only be used in exceptional circumstances they would appear to offer money to councils for each house built ! https://westlancashirerecord.com/2016/12/13/councils-offered-huge-bribes-to-build-homes-on-green-belt/