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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Acres Land & Planning

I welcome the bold decision to recommend a range of suggestions for new settlements in order to give choice and options for new growth in the area. But the Council will know that new settlements (in addition to being land hungry and expensive to build) take time to deliver and hence ensure that people moving to those areas will be in a constant climate of change with evolving services and continuing disruption. This is not to denigrate the concept of new settlements but to point out that organic growth in towns and villages (where people can slot into existing communities and friendship patterns) should not be rejected. Both have their place. Paragraph 4.2 floats the suggestion that new settlements offer the opportunity of 20 minute neighbourhoods and car free communities. The reality is very much the opposite.