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If our system is seen to be unfair, disillusionment sets in and democracy begins to die a little. I believe that we are already an uncomfortable distance down that road.
Not only that, but in the areas in which zero tolerance was, quite reasonably, being imposed, there was a transfer from overt, violent street crime to more subtle forms of crime, partly commercial and retail crime.
There was a misunderstanding about the number of properties involved and figure 26 referred to the number of blocks on the plan whereas each block represents four properties.
In a sense, the draft SPP 8 and the draft SPP 21 are two sides of the same coin. The draft SPP 8 suggests that the main emphasis of development should be the revival of town centres, so the two go hand in hand.
I would be surprised if anybody would disagree with the proposal, simply because it can happen—that is, the two people can toss a coin to decide which one is to be the applicant and which one is to be the respondent; one will sign page 1 and the other will sign page 2, and in effect that will be a joint application.
You get to a point at which politicians will have to make political decisions—that is what politicians are elected to do. We will live or die on the political decisions that we make.