Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2895
Received: 07/03/2023
Respondent: Dr M Fewster
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
The B1332 does not lie 'immediately to the west of the parish'. It is 2 kilometres from the boundary, and two-and-a- half kilometres from the centre of the village along largely single track roads with no footpaths until Poringland. There are no 'good links' to services in Poringland, and no bus service on those routes. The bus route through the village goes to Norwich. The 'nucleated' estate development is not 'nucleated' in the landscape sense, which implies gathering round a centre. The estates do not interconnect, and do not provide any centre to the village.
The plan cannot be sound if the descriptions on which it is based are inaccurate.
The correct distance to Poringland should be specified numerically, as the distance to the A146 is, and the phrase 'good link' should be replaced with 'access by car'.
The reference to 'good link' to Loddon on the A146 should again specify 'by car'. There is no bus stop nearer than Highways Garden Centre, which requires a dangerous walk along the A146.
The reference to 'nucleated' should be replaced by 'concentrated'.