Key Issue 3 asserts that the local plan should:
"Reducing dependence of Harborough's residents on commuting and increasing wage rates by providing a breadth of employment alternatives, including more opportunities for Harborough's higher skilled residents"

Given we have virtually full employment in and around the Lutterworth area would this development, should it go ahead, not take potential employment away from other areas that need it more?

There is virtually full employment for anyone who wants it in the district and in Lutterworth in particular, and demand for employees will only be increased when the aforementioned developments at DIRFT and East Midlands come on stream.

Increasing the size of Magna Park would only increase the number of low skilled low paid jobs on offer to local people should they want them. We do not see this proposal in anyway providing a breadth of employment alternatives for higher skilled residents. Quite the opposite, the creation of 10,000 warehouse operative jobs will not stop residents commuting elsewhere in search of higher quality, wage work opportunities.

The Lutterworth area has a dearth of good quality office locations. If effort was put into this type of development, then local opportunities would be created for higher skilled local people and attract and maintain higher value jobs and businesses. We need to be attracting Hi Tech, innovative business to the region not low skill, low wage organisations. They are the type of job that disappear in any economic downturn.