1. There doesn’t seem to be much in the policy about the role of the parish council planning committees. I think they should have more power, as otherwise developments are imposed on communities rather than having their support.
2. There are details relating to the distribution of housing developments, but I would like to see a system whereby if we need for example an increase of 10% of housing, that should be evenly distributed across villages/towns/communities and not just located in one development. Communities are much more willing to accept new developments if they know neighbouring communities are also taking their share.
3. You mention sustainability, but with every field that gets built upon, a community’s ability to sustain itself by growing it’s own produce/maintaining it’s own livestock, is diminished. We should also take into account the fact that it lessens our ability to install solar/wind farms etc. We need to take greater account of this in my opinion; the greater the population the more land we need to dedicate to these uses within a specified distance. If we are not doing this we may as well forget referring to sustainability at all.