I have spent many hours going through the plans for the future and it it obvious that a lot of time has been spent, and no doubt, a lot of consultancy fees in drawing these plans up.
I'm sure it will be of little surprise that you will not get many positive responses to the plans.
For my part, I do believe that planning for the future is essential and I have no wish to live in the past, but I think it is totally irresponsible to continue issuing these plans and to continue building developments willy nilly before there is a plan to complete the infrastructure to serve and support the expansions already underway. I deliberately did not use the phrase "already completed" because it cannot be claimed that any of the developments that have been started over the past 20 years can be regarded as complete until all services needed to serve these developments are in place, i.e. doctors and dentist surgeries, schools, social services, roads and street lights completed, a doubling of the size of the N & N hospital and a plan to bring into the region more industry. There will be many more items to add to this list and until these are completed it is totally irresponsible and lacking in intelligence to continue with any further developments.
This is not meant to be taken as an insult but asking for more thought to be put into the legacy that we are leaving our children.