Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2384
Received: 21/02/2023
Respondent: Miss Andrea Dipple
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
Sub-heading 16.2 states that "the parish is well served by the A146 and A143", however access is only via travel along The Street and specifically the blind Z-bends within Gillingham. The Highways Agency have already confirmed (within its response to planning application 2022/1993) that these bends cannot cope with the additional traffic that these proposed developments would bring.
Subheading 16.2 also states that the village is substantially of "rural character". The proposed housing developments and expansion of the service area would substantially change the charachter of the village, turning it into an urbanisation rather than a rural village.
The village has developed in a linear form along The Street, which already suffers from severe vehicular traffic congestion especially through the blind z-bends, which is unsuited to further increases of car and van traffic from further development.