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Representation ID: 6917

Received: 09/03/2021

Respondent: Joe Karkoszka

•Building on Green Belt destroys greenfields forever and is against government’s policy on protecting the environment.
•Infrastrcuture cannot cope with anymore housing e.g. transport, drainage, schools, doctors –all oversubscribed.
•The more houses that are built the more houses are needed in the future. E.g. in the 1950s the average family was a mother, father and 2.4 children, meaning that for every 8 houses built a ninth was required. Today the average family is larger than in the 50s.
•The world’s population is growing – 4 billion (1970s), nearly 8 billion today, meaning in another 50 years it will be 16 billion – the planet cannot sustain this.
•Should be looking bringing down the birth-rate rather than building.
•Should be using brownfield sites, leave the greenfield sites to provide oxygen and stop suffocating the planet with short term decisions.