Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9030
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Mr Steve Coathup
I find it incredible that you are asking lay people what will incentivise developers, when you deal with them every day. Clearly developers have a financial duty to shareholders to maximise their profitability. Your role as planners is to represent the interests of the local community as rate payers who a)fund the local authority and b) have more interest in the local environment than developers.These objectives are diametrically opposed. I believe therefore that the needs of the community should take preference to the profit incentive of developers.
I find it incredible that you are asking lay people what will incentivise developers, when you deal with them every day. Clearly developers have a financial duty to shareholders to maximise their profitability. Your role as planners is to represent the interests of the local community as rate payers who a)fund the local authority and b) have more interest in the local environment than developers.These objectives are diametrically opposed. I believe therefore that the needs of the community should take preference to the profit incentive of developers.