SNVC Objective 1 - Meet housing needs
Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2600
Received: 01/03/2023
Respondent: Hempnall Parish Council
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Hempnall Parish Council challenges the decoupling of the housing allocations for the South Norfolk Village Clusters and its associated policy from the rest of the GNLP as being unsound. The GNLP Regulation 19 consultation commenced before the South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations document (SNVCHAP) was published for its Regulation 18 consultation. This was despite the South Norfolk Local Development Scheme (accessed 18 February 2021 when it was labelled as “final”) stating that the SNVCHAP would be consulted on in February/March 2021, whereas it took place later in the year, ending on 2 August 2021. While it is reasonable for a Local Plan to comprise several separate documents, the GNLP and the SNVCHAP to be sound should follow the same, or at least a very similar timetable, otherwise it is impossible to judge whether the two (or more) documents are based on proportionate evidence.
Given that the housing numbers proposed for inclusion in the GNLP could be found to be unsound and unnecessarily large this reinforces the view of Hempnall Parish Council which is that there is no need for additional sites to be allocated for housing in the village as part of the South Norfolk Village Clusters Plan and indeed there is no need for any allocations to be made anywhere in South Norfolk via the SNVCHAP.
Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2609
Received: 02/03/2023
Respondent: Mrs Patricia Thurgood
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
It is not a viable site for such great density of dwellings.
The terrain is undulating and uneven, resulting in some properties being overlooked.
The plot is presently untarmacked and with the slope of the land, rain floods through our fence and into our property ; so once developed, this can only worsen.
Dwellings at levels below Beccles Road will mean a sewage pumping station, and the ensuing environmental disruption.
Restrict building to the number originally approved, which is 5.
Create a plan which respects the environment and the biodiversity of the site.
Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2658
Received: 03/03/2023
Respondent: Ms Sue Knights
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Objective 1 is not met because the proposed development (Wicklewood - policy VC WICI) is not in a suitable location, considering housing needs for the immediate area are being provided already by large developments in nearby Wymondham.
Viable housing needs in a small village as Wicklewood does not require an addition of more than 10% additional houses in the immediate future. therefore a smaller scale of development should be considered.
Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2873
Received: 07/03/2023
Respondent: Cornerstone Planning Ltd
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Site SN0475REVA or SN0475REVB should be an allocated site in the Plan. The suitability assessment paints an unnecessarily pessimistic picture regarding the sustainability credentials of the site. Any adverse impacts would be outweighed by the social and economic benefits of the provision of an affordable housing-led scheme in Colton/village cluster (including much-needed accommodation for staff at the nearby Barnham Broom Golf & Country Club, N&N NHS Trust and UEA) and provision of public open space in Colton. The Plan is therefore unsound, in that it is inconsistent with national policy (NPPF paragraphs 78-79).
Site SN0475REVA or SN0475REVB should be an allocated site (affordable housing-led scheme) in the Plan.
Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2941
Received: 07/03/2023
Respondent: Mrs Sarah Manning
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
Tacolneston Sites GNLPSL0016/GNLPSL0016Rev/GNLPSL0016RevB should be allocated for one self build' through an settlement extension. The sites overlap, promoted 'Self Build'. The assessments fails to include site history 2021/1044 and 2021/1045 granted during this process. This application offers public/historical asset benefit that could come forward through process. Linking the asset to (AW) drainage (septic tank removal) obtains nitrates compliance in a sustainability location.
I object to highways comment-Access exists (granted 1949). The existing footpath adjacent is 7 m x 35 m (highways) grass verge same side as school.
Tacolneston's local plan extension 2015 included historic benefits within the allocation 2014/0812, similar.
Tacolneston should have a settlement extension to include one 'self build' allocated, especially in a sustainable location adjacent to the school when it could support a heritage benefit which may only come forward in this way.
Assess 'self build' and smaller sites fairly without stipulating urban policy .eg Highways policy that footpaths need to be 2 m wide. This does not reflect village characteristics, is detrimental to climate policy. Make sure that assessments are factually correct e.g sites GNLPSL0016REVB does not have a section 4 restriction and no Conservation appraisal is adopted.
Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 3220
Received: 08/03/2023
Respondent: Silfield Ltd
Agent: Lanpro Services Ltd
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
My client Silfield Ltd wishes to object to the Regulation 19 version of the emerging South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (VCHAP) as published for consultation. This is on the basis that the emerging VCHAP fails to meet the tests of soundness as outlined in paragraph 35 of the National Planning Policy Framework. The housing allocations contained within the VCAP that seek to deliver circa. 1,200 new dwellings in South Norfolk Council area are not positively prepared, nor justified, nor effective or otherwise consistent with Government guidance contained in the National Planning Policy Framework. The point my client is making is that the comparison of competing sites in arriving at the VCHAP housing allocations has not been correctly undertaken and as a result the emerging allocations do not meet the tests of soundness.