Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2775
Received: 05/03/2023
Respondent: Mr Mike Smallwood
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
Section A.7. states “Paragraph 69 of the NPPF notes the importance of small and medium sized sites, up to 1 hectare in size”. Given the proposed site in Bawburgh is 1.4 hectares, this implies a “large site”. Therefore this is totally unacceptable in a small village, not clustered with any others.
35 houses within a 1.4 hectare site is not in keeping with the current density of other groups of housing in the village, contradicting SNVC objective 3. It is also based on the council's spacing criteria for urban settings, and not appropriate for a rural setting as in Bawburgh.
Both the 1.4ha plot of land and the density of houses proposed are not appropriate for this rural setting. Any development should be aligned to the most recent permission in Bawburgh (2018/1550) for ~9 homes per hectare which would be more appropriate for this rural environment.