The explanation for allowing Magan Park to expand is based on increasing employment in the district. Harborough District has very low levels of unemplyment thought and particulalry Lutterworth (less thatn 2%). Therefore this expansion will not support the local area, but will be detrimental, due to loss of countryside, significant increases in traffic, resulting in a further detrioation of air quality and safety. The plan highights infrastructure issues due to the high levels of traffic, but does not make any plan for how to alleviate this.

The Magna park jobs are low skilled and will be filled by those having to commute from outside the area. With increased level of automation even this nnumber of jobs will decrease over a relatively short time. There are already examples of automation in outer wharehouses replaces 100's of jobs and this will continue to hapen.

Planning Consultants advised HDC that the choice of how much development to allow at Magna Park was a political decision. Placing such a large area of warehousing at MP would deprive other parts of Leicestershire of the employment opportunity.

The location of the park goes against the National Planning Policy that state there is preference for access to rail fright assetts. Magna Park is now where close to a rail head, where as other sites, such as DIRFT are.

The evidence for the 700,000 sq mts is that there are two outstanding planning applications for
this area of warehousing. This indicates that the proposal is opportunist, not strategic or
focused on meeting the employment needs of the district.