Comment

Representation ID: 18784

Received: 09/02/2007

Respondent: Home Builders Federation

It is appropriate and necessary to have an overall spatial vision for the rural areas. The guiding objective is to ensure the sustainability of rural communities through providing for their needs, in the form of housing provision. This is essential if communities are not to see further decline in service provision and vitality. The balance should be to focus rural housing growth in service centres, but where there is a need to act to support a struggling community, development should be allowed to take place at an appropriate scale.