One Planet Development Policy

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:53 pm on 14 October 2020.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 2:53, 14 October 2020

Minister, I suspect you know the impact of these applications on the view of farming families in Gower, as one has been turned down very recently not so very far away from you. Locals are not best pleased that they have to jump through various hoops in order to keep their young people living in the area, where some of these One Planet development applications do tend to come from people living outside the area. If you're talking about sustainable communities, rather than these experiments, we really do have to think about ways of keeping young people in their localities rather than them feeling obliged to move out of them. You're right that there are no current plans to update the overarching policy of guidance on this. Considering that that is, at least, coming up to being 10 years old now, I want to know why, as it predates the well-being of future generations Act by at least three years.