[holding answer 20 March 2007]: There is no reference to Paignton West (Yalberton Valley), as a preferred site in relation to the New Growth Point or otherwise, on the Torbay New Growth Point page of the Department’s website. The page does refer to:
(a) the provision of infrastructure to open up employment areas at Yalberton road, Paignton, but I think this refers to employment development already proposed in the adopted local plan; and,
(b) a new sustainable community, for the public to debate as part of the Local Development Framework. Torbay council identified a location at the Yalberton Valley as one of several options for this new community, but my information is that no decision has been taken. As the website says, decisions on whether to develop a new community, and where, are matters for the Local Development Framework, which will be the subject of community involvement and public examination by an independent planning inspector.