Ms Claire McManus:

I would like to comment as well because it is a really important point. At a broad level, the less sustainable the housing, the cheaper and more viable it is to deliver. That is only true because we are not counting everything in the system. There is no benefit to building in a walkable area to the viability equation. Generally, the sites in walkable places where people might be able to survive with one car instead of two cars, are more expensive to deliver. There needs to be a way to bring it into the system in order that we count the benefit of less carbon emissions due to transport and all kinds of other benefits. If we are building in an brownfield site, we are not losing agricultural land, hedgerows etc. I know I am going a bit off-topic but all of those costs should be brought into the system and then we should incentivise the stuff we want to see happen.