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Where Will They Work?
15 June 2007
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Experts naively used to believe that employers follow their workers.
So all you had to do was build a new town and companies will flock to it. That misconception has been proved wrong again and again all over the world. For many of us the available jobs are in London and the Thames valley corridor. There is a way to change this: It has been shown time and time again that the best attraction for business is a vibrant academic environment. A technical real-sciences oriented university will provide jobs and attract high-tech business to our Vale. Everybody will be paying lip service to the concern about the extra traffic the new 9,000 households will generate. However the planners can actually impact this issue. Usually, the business parks are planned in the outskirts of towns. I urge BCC to consider first seeding business centres and then planning the houses around them. This will reduce the commuting burden and would be very ‘Green’. I call on the BCC to show where people will work before approving any planes and put in place NOW as many attractions as possible for employers and moreover to actively help the existing high learning institutes and encourage the opening of new ones. I would also encourage the Bucks herald to send some reporters to learn how massive development such as the one planned for the south of Aylesbury were handled in other towns and what lessons were learnt. Come to think of it, I hope someone at BCC and AVDC already did that.
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