In order to address some of the concerns raised by local residents on the potential development of this land, FW Properties confirm the following;
• The new dwellings will be served by two new private accessways on to Wheel Road only.
• The new properties will be set back from Wheel Road to minimise the effects of the new development on the existing houses opposite. The scheme will be based upon a similar design approach to the FW Properties' development off Cooke's Road in Bergh Apton for 11 houses which was completed in 2018.
• The scheme layout will reflect the advice of our highways engineers in relation to widening the stretch of Wheel Road in front of the two new accesses to 5 metres (together with a 2 metre wide pavement) and to achieve the required visibility for the two accessways on to this road. This will result in the removal of some of the existing hedge along Wheel Road - a new mixed species hedge will then be planted along this section of the frontage. It is our intention to retain as much of the existing front hedge as possible.
• A drop kerb is proposed to the northern pavement to the east of Fortune Green to provide a crossing point for pedestrians to the new pavement proposed along the southern side of Wheel Road - this will connect into the existing pavement in front of the pub that runs alongside Wheel Road to the village primary school.
• FW Properties are proposing an overflow car park for the Wheel of Fortune Pub as part of the development of this land. This will help to prevent patrons from parking their cars along the verge of Wheel Road during peak times. The freehold of this car park will be transferred to the pub once it has been completed. This will be based upon a very similar design to the gravel car park developed for the village primary school as part of our previous Alpington development in Wheel Road.
• The development will include some additional soft landscaping on the strip of land immediately to the south of the existing front hedge to further reduce the scheme’s impact and will also have a mixed species hedge and post and wire fence along the whole of the boundary with the land to the south which will remain as arable/grazing land.
• The existing ditch and the mature hedge which runs alongside the eastern boundary of the land (which is shared with the pub) will be retained. There will be a landscaping buffer between this hedge and the new overflow car park to reduce the impact on the pub.