Object

Representation ID: 1779

Received: 02/08/2021

Respondent: Mr Christopher Brighton

The proposed development is totally out of scale and character, and would mean extending beyond the existing settlement limit.

Ashwellthorpe Road is both narrow and winding. There are blind bends and the carriage width is only 2.7mtrs. as you enter the village with no passing places other than private driveway entrances.
Mill Lane is, as it suggests, a lane leading from the neighbouring hamlet of Toprow. It is narrow, only 3.0mtrs. in width in many places with blind bends.

Church Road being the main route into the village from Norwich is again narrow with blind bends. There are places where this road narrows to 2.8mtrs.

Hethel Road, before joining Church Road, also presents a hazardous route into the village from Wymondham with blind spots and a carriage width of only 3.0mtrs. and no passing places other than private driveway entrances, in many places. The junction at Church Road has extremely poor visibility.
The impact of added vehicular movements have to be taken into account when the road system of the village is inadequate to cope with the increased traffic a development of this scale would create. Using private driveway entrances as passing bays is unacceptable.
A suggestion for a suitable site would be the former Spratts Coach Depot.,
which is a brown field site and could provide the scale of development suitable for the natural village settlement of Wreningham.