Proposed Modifications to the Thanet Local Plan
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Document Section | Main Modifications Chapter 3 - Housing strategy MM/025 MM/025 [View all comments on this section] |
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Comment ID | 262 |
Respondent | Gary Fowler [View all comments by this respondent] |
Response Date | 27 Jan 2020 |
Comment | The whole basis of the calculations for the local plan allocation of houses for Thanet is fundamentally flawed as the calculation is based on the expected immigration levels with our continued membership of the European Union. Now we are scheduled to leave on the 31st January 2020 the ONS should recalculate the numbers on which the local plan is based, this means any allocation done for Kent and THanet local plan is now completely inaccurate as the In 2018, 419,000 NINos were allocated to EU nationals, down 34% from 2015. Long-term arrivals of EU citizens planning to spend at least 12 months in the country fell by 25% over the same period, reaching 202,000 in 2018. Because estimated emigration of EU nationals also increased, EU net migration fell more sharply – by 59% to 75,000 in 2018. (See the Migration Observatory briefing, Net migration in the UK for more detailed data.) https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/eu-migration-to-and-from-the-uk/ On this basis the local plan should be scrapped and recalculated on the expected immigration based on the new arrangements that the government intend to put into place and the decreased migration from the European Union It is completely unacceptable to base the local plan on such inaccurate basic information when the fundemental |
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