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Covid-19 has demonstrated that shopping and retail patterns are changing rapidly, with physical shop demands greatly reducing. This challenges all forecasts of shop and job requirements. However, there may conversely be an increase in demand for 'experience locations' such as the 'escape room' in Letchworth along with locations for social gathering.

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The attached document identifies points in the text that in our view need to be clarified for soundness of the Local Plan. These points are offered as comments rather than by way of objection or approval. As required, the comments apply to the proposed changes shown in bold, red style and the immediate contexts that affect, and are affected by, the meanings of the proposed modifications.

The document is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and each comment is marked via two kinds of annotation:
• highlighting of the words referred to, unless that's an entire paragraph, and
• a 'speech bubble' to state our suggestion or query about the item.