Delivering a wide choice of homes that meet the needs of our communities

I think in general we need to build up rather than out - high density housing near major employment centres like hospitals and universities. This frees up less dense housing stock for families.

Agree with both comments from James. It would be good to agree the target groups that housing is needed for, truly understand their needs and find ways to strongly encourage / incentivise developers to focus on those groups.

The economic forecasts supporting this SLP actually say that we don't need a lot more houses (30,000 is based on flawed forecasting) but we might need a different mix because of our aging population and smaller households. The strategy needs to be to deliver the highest priority need on a targeted basis ie genuinely affordable houses to accommodate the people to fill the jobs we desperately need ie nurses, social care. We should focus on this as the priority and deliver the additional houses for more affluent as a secondary objective. If we continue to approach the problem from the other way round, we never address the problem and housing just becomes more unaffordable.