As the plan progresses, you need to ensure that it references and is based on the latest government targets. Technology, standards and targets will continue to change rapidly during the period of the plan and so the plan will need to include mechanisms to ensure that policies and supplementary policies can keep pace.

Agree that development should be located so that low carbon transport links can be accessed. However, such locations should not be chosen based on proposed busways – the delivery of these is uncertain and their construction generates carbon emissions through the embodied carbon in the building materials, tree felling reducing carbon capture, maintenance and serving works, and lighting, contrary to the Council’s net zero carbon agenda. The majority of the busways are also in the green belt.