The projected vision is based on the premise that growth will deliver all sorts of wonderful good things - enhance the environment, the economy and peoples lives. The problem with this is that the received experience of much development in all parts of Britain and certainly in Norfolk since at least the 1970s is that it does not do this. Development brings more pollution, traffic, worsened services, more environmental damage, loss of countryside and lower quality lives. Unless the statements made can be proved by empirical evidence, they are nothing more than mis-selling advertising, and should not be included in any statement related to the policies being suggested. It is important that the public should not be mislead and the statement clearly does so at present based on the past experience of 40 years of 'growth policy'.