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Object

Representation ID: 25662

Received: 11/03/2019

Respondent: Northern Fringe Protection Group

The CS should comply with Government advice to use the Standard method annual 2014 (445) figures (Government October 2018 consultation) for housing targets.
The evidence base ignores latest population and employment figures. It fails to consider potential impacts for the Core Strategy of the drop of employed people from 67,300 to 66,500 in the latest NOMIS figures.
The CS gives misleading impressions of continued population growth, when it is currently stagnant. The evidence base needs to consider the impacts of the latest population figure of 138,500 (2017) is the same as 2016, as the fall-off in population growth has implications.