If this is the case how is it that the Blackfriars development in Battle includes no affordable housing.

There is nothing in this plan that addresses any of those challenges. The wellbeinf of development companies firmly protected but otherwise nothing.

As we all know from the BlackFriars development, affordable housing invariably gets waived after planning is granted. Even if it is built, it tends to be unaffordable part-buy which costs the unfortunate purchaser considerably more than they would have paid on a mortgage on an older house.

It is important to consider existing biodiversity in the plan, rather than trying to create it in as part of developmental project. The biosystems within established ancient headgelands, ground structures and trees have develped over hundreds of years and cannot be replaced by new plantings and reseeding.
Most of the developments we see being built as a result of these plans do not represent any kind of afforable or social need - the site at BAT0014 for example is proposed on Grade A agricultural land, within a historical landscape - many of the field boundaries are untouched for hundreds of years. Behind my home for example, is a ancient farm lane, complete with a medieval bank boundary and ditch, which is absolutely teeming with wildlife - newts, frogs, and small mammals as well as a number of healthy mature trees - oaks and hornbeam. Today it was being surveyed, I assume to be cleared and levelled as an access track to the proposed building site - which will completely decimate any existing wildlife. The size of the current estate is optimal as it stands - it is small enough to have created community and a safe space for young children to play outside, keeping in touch with nature.