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Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan - Alternative Sites & Focused Changes (Reg. 18)

Representation ID: 3275

Received: 13/12/2023

Respondent: Mr Marcus Rayner

Representation Summary:

I have no idea why green field sites are built on when every town has many brown field sites. People move to a village for different reasons.

Whilst you continue to fund local council budgets through housing growth they are all self interested and therefore wish for as much building as possible with little interest to their existing residents.

In Spooner Row housing is proposed to the land past the school on on the left, the land past the railway line heading towards the Boars ,the land opposite the ex council properties heading towards Wymondham and a half finished estate opposite where you are proposing a new estate making absolutely zero sense to me.

As a resident it feels like you don’t have a plan at all you just look for sites with the point of least resistance which is why people are so sceptical.

My proposal would be as a resident and if you really wanted to engage me give me three proposed sites in my village with outlined plans and number of houses proposed and let democracy have its way, we all accept that we need a reasonable increase in housing stock but no one likes being done to.

Full text:

I have some observations on the amendments relating to Spooner row and proposed new housing.

Firstly I have no idea why you constantly wish to build on green field sites when every town you go into has many brown field sites and by nature are towns therefore you would expect growth. People move to a village for different reasons not to constantly be threatened by villages turning into towns.

Whilst you continue to fund local council budgets through housing growth they are all self interested and therefore wish for as much building as possible with little interest to their existing residents.

In Spooner row to my knowledge you have proposed housing to the land past the school on on the left, the land past the railway line heading towards the Boars ,the land opposite the ex council properties heading towards Wymondham and a half finished estate opposite where you are proposing a new estate making absolutely zero sense to me.

As a resident it feels like you don’t have a plan at all you just look for sites with the point of least resistance which is why people are so sceptical.

My proposal would be as a resident and if you really wanted to engage me give me three proposed sites in my village with outlined plans and number of houses proposed and let democracy have its way, we all accept that we need a reasonable increase in housing stock but no one likes being done to.