Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2887
Received: 07/03/2023
Respondent: Mr stephen hubbard
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
40 houses are far too many, could result in 60 extra cars negotiating a junction exactly opposite the school with obvious problems, surface water can only increase the flood risk, there will be run off from roofs, driveways, the service road, the car park and all the treated water from sewage plants and because the site falls some 3 to 4 metres to the road this will be catastrophic to the residents further down school road, car park is dangerous and unnecessary, safe drop off could be made on the school side, junction and car park takes up building plots.
The site opposite the school has become through natural re-wilding a valuable wildlife sanctuary among open farmland and housing particularly for barn owls, ideal hunting habitat however a development could be acceptable for up to 10 dwellings on the western end but school road drainage would have to be addressed to accommodate these. The path on the western side of school road should be moved to provide more road width for safe drop off of children, piping the ditch and putting the path on top will achieve this.