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We do not believe that the levels of growth meet the residents' wishes, aspirations or most importantly NEEDS - the proposal grossly exceeds the true requirement. Various proposals have come forward of the "emerging plan period" - including the eloquent proposal from Mr Ray Bullen - which measure the need at much lower levels. We believe that the need should be related to the organic growth which will come from the current population and number of houses - we have very low employment so extra employment opportunity is not actually needed. If we provide such extra employment opportunity we will need more people for those jobs and hence will drive an inward migration - and surprise, surprise will need more houses still. This is not what the electorate has asked for - it is artificial and is presumably politically driven - it should be reviewed and the numbers significantly reduced to meet real needs not fuelled growth.