Comment

Representation ID: 294

Received: 30/06/2021

Respondent: Mr Brian Falk

Objective 1 establishes an assessment based on housing need calculated plan-wide. There is no effort to tailor or explain housing allocation for and to the individual settlements. Why should Bressingham require an extra 52 (or is it 77) new dwellings? What impact and additional facilities will this impose on the village? Without justification or reason it fails to be planning and becomes just a scattering of housing across the countryside.
Objective 2 is ‘to support local services and facilities’ but not to encourage or create improvements. This should be extended to deal with the impact housing additions will have on settlement facilities and how to achieve the needed extra services, facilities and infrastructure.
There is no specific objective requiring quality design or ‘building beautiful’. Omission allows for swathes of builder standard house types, typical of those in Diss by Persimmon, unrelated to the settlement in look or layout. ‘Design Quality’ should be added to SNVCHA’s Objective 3 requirements of ‘scale, location and density’.