THE preferred option for West Devon Borough Council's core strategy has now been published. In my opinion the whole plan is flawed.
It does nothing more than recognise Central Government targets, which are too blunt an instrument to recognise local needs. The proposed link road between the new residential area and the roundabout at the Redrow Tiddy Meadows development, says to me that the expansion is to cope with the needs of Plymouth.
If this Government is serious about resolving Green Issues then surely these homes need to be built in or near Plymouth. The planners in their consultation acknowledge the difficulty of further development in Tavistock.
As to the 'carrots' of new hospital, and school, the current state of public finances suggests to me, 'not in the lifetime of this plan'. The proposed railway, while laudable cannot in practice be sustainable.
In short, the plan ignores the basic rules of supply and demand. The town council needs to contest this, and I for one would not object to providing some extra financing.
Don Lewis
Brook Lane
Tavistock