Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2421
Received: 23/02/2023
Respondent: Mrs Lesley McNulty
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
This is not a suitable site for development as it will create a large housing estate. Villages by definition have linear developments. The loss of another piece of green space is reprehensible.
Mr Gove MP has stated that whilst national housing targets remain local authorities can build fewer homes if they can show that meeting centrally imposed targets would damage the character of their area. This absolutely is the case here.
"Brownfield land will be prioritised for development". You have identified Bergh Apton as this. That must be the limit of what our Cluster has to provide.
Up to 50 dwellings in the Alpington/Yelverton/Bergh Apton Cluster is unsound. The drive to build c1,200 homes has always been the VCHAP aim. It feels that it was assumed all Clusters could provide a suitable site for development. Now it has been proven otherwise it has put an unreasonable burden on the remaining Clusters.
The c1,200 target should be reviewed.