The basis of the NPPF is flawed. The population is not expanding at the rate the government think it is. People are having children much later which means we will be effectively lose a whole generation over a period of 70 years. People owning more than one house should be taxed heavily and this will free up existing housing. Having houses with annexes will allow elderly people to live near their family support network and free up a lot of sole occupancy housing. Stop converting bungalows into houses - we will need these bungalows because there will be 46% increase in our over 70 population. You are not building houses based on what we need you are building housing for what is profitable for the developers. This is developer led building and not a needs based building strategy.

Maybe consider different prices for the same housing - local people getting a discount or people outside the area having to pay an “additional tax” to move into the area. A bit like Jersey and Guernsey currently do and St Ives is considering doing. If firms want certain expertise they can pay the additional money (or hopefully consider training local people in the right skills).

We live on an island. We have limited space and we need to manage our resources fairly and sensibly. We need to be able to produce our own food as well so farming land should be kept for farming. We have the most productive farming land in the whole of England right here in Essex and we are building on it.