The delivery of housing and employment growth is predicated on the provision of 'sustainable' infrastructure - as stated in the Delivery Statement.
However, experience of the past 20 years has shown that the GNDP have totally failed to provide for the ability of infrastructure and services to keep pace with the projected and actual growth. Traffic numbers and congestion is increasing massively, public transport is failing to offer viable alternatives, air pollution issues are increasing, water demand is placing massive and unsustainable pressures on ground and surface water provision (low flows in rivers / drying wetlands), and the services associated with our society (health, education, social services, older persons needs, younger persons services) are all failing. The prescription of more development will not solve this as it is excessive population growth that underlies the unsustainable stresses that have been placed on our society, environment and lives. The statement on infrastructure should reference that past performance has failed to deliver sustainable infrastructure and that the policies being promoted are based on 'more of the same' so that a 'health warning' on the ability of the GNDP policies to deliver sustainable and good infrastructure to support and improve lives, the environment and society is at best 'an intent', but with very little likelihood of success, and that the probable effect will be continuing decline in all measurable areas of infrastructure delivery as a result of policies proposed. This needs to be clearly stated in the proposed development plan