Object

Representation ID: 534

Received: 22/07/2021

Respondent: Miss Alison Swift

I am a resident of Little Melton and writing to South Norfolk Council and the councillors concerned about the proposals for more housing in Little Melton, and to add my support to the response from Little Melton Parish Council.

The Joint Core Strategy states small-scale housing growth in Little Melton, which has already been exceeded. South Norfolk Council is neither protecting the character of this village or it’s setting, which it claims is one of its objectives. If this plan is allowed to go ahead it will give carte blanche to full-scale development because the Joint Core Strategy will have been rendered utterly meaningless. What is the point of having a Joint Core Strategy if it is then ignored. The Landscape Protection Zone is also being ignored and has already been extensively encroached upon in other areas. Two of the proposed sites in Little Melton are within this - alleged - protected zone. Why designate these areas as protected only to allow them to be be densely built on. The Council is not only not protecting the landscape, and therefore the people and the environment in which they live, but contradicting itself. These actions completely erode trust in our elected Council and it’s Councillors because of the disparity between what it claims and lays down are it’s aims and objectives, and what it then actually does.

If these proposals go ahead, coupled with the large scale development at Hethersett, Little Melton and Hethersett will soon be one ill-considered, urban housing sprawl, with few green spaces, an inadequate infrastructure, and unable to cope with a changing climate. Where little thought has been given to the long term effects on the people living there, their needs and the quality of the environment in which they are expected to live. Do you not think people deserve better? Do you ever consider the legacy the council and its councillors are leaving future generations?