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DELETE PARAGRAPHS 3.1 - 3.3 AND TEXT BOX

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Object

Draft Core Strategy and Policies Focused Review

Representation ID: 618

Received: 10/03/2014

Respondent: Babergh District Council & Midsuffolk District Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

BDC/MSDC is concerned over the change in direction away from the existing strategy especially the abandonment of the clear steer in existing paragraph 3.3 "that a jobs-led growth strategy is the right one for Ipswich". NPPF is clear that development should be sustainable with a need for employment centres to continue their role to provide for employment opportunities. This requires the Core Strategy to take a much more positive approach/ have a strategy to jobs provision including taking every sustainable opportunity available to provide employment land within the Borough.

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Object

Draft Core Strategy and Policies Focused Review

Representation ID: 777

Received: 10/03/2014

Respondent: Northern Fringe Protection Group

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Yes

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

The revised CS should explain why IBC no longer believes in a jobs-led strategy. We argue that for sustainable development jobs and housing growth must be in balance and located in close proximity with good sustainable transport links. Neither more unemployed residents or residents working outside the borough is considered to be sustainable. A housing-led strategy means the proposed Garden Suburb with new jobs in the town centre reached by bus, bike or on foot is no longer sustainable and so the CS is unsound

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