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  My concern is that the enormous expansion of Whitfield (completely against the wishes of the people there) is being driven by cash incentives. It seems the wrong way round - build houses because they are needed and enhance the area. Don't just slap them down on the countryside willy-nilly for the sake of it because of a few grants which will soon be spent anyway. Smacks of the shopkeeper mentality to me.
  
  Moreover if this plan does come off, where would the next round of expansion have left to go?
  
  Space is not a finite resource, but a precious one to be prized and looked after. I thought we realised now that the traditional low-density, suburbanist, land-squandering English approach to development is passé and that we need a smarter, more frugal approach to using land.

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