Please do not pretend that this plan has been developed to meet local needs. I do not know of anyone locally who thinks that 12000 new dwellings, 25000 new residents and a similar number of vehicles, meets any needs of theirs.

If we must have all these dwellings you need to prioritise brownfield sites wherever possible. Your policy of developing Portfield and similar 'out of town' 'retail offerings' is gradually stripping the town centre of shops. Therefore it would make sense to allow any empty shop which has not been sold/re-let within a certain timescale to be redeveloped into housing.

Please pay more heed to all the other developments which are proposed - such as the Southern Gateway. All these need to be integrated, not treated piecemeal.

Also, all these extra people and vehicles will need a wholesale improvement in infrastructure, from roads, cycleways, schools and medical facilities, to water and sewage and everything else. This will eat up even more land. Can you not tell the government that such large scale development in an already overcrowded coastal strip is unsustainable, injurious to health and mental well-being, and unfair?