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Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 2872
Received: 07/03/2023
Respondent: Mr Nick Goodge
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
If a new school is built it will also have a massive impact on the cars using "The Street" as not all the children walk to school - some drive from Beccles. In particular that ninety degree blind bend. Sooner or later there will be a fatal accident there due to increased traffic.
Even if the school isn't built it will mean kids are driven to Beccles - once again putting more demand on that blind ninety degree bend. Its a catch 22 situation.
Object
South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
Representation ID: 3039
Received: 08/03/2023
Respondent: Ms Julia Johnson
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
NCC's response (as attached) to 2022/1993 planning application noted Gillingham Primary school is currently oversubscribed, so has no capacity for new pupils from GIL1 or other sites. Provision of extra land for the school within GIL1 will not help within the medium term, as there are no plans given for the land use. As this land is adjacent to Daisy Way, it can be reasonably assumed that there will be an access created to the school from Daisy Way and there has been no consideration of the impact of that in either this Plan or in the above Planning Application.
The GIL1 site should be removed from the preferred site list as one of the reasons for it being shortlisted is good accessibility, noted in the SAR to be based on its proximity to the Primary School. There are no places at the school and any expansion of the school will require planning permission, design and construction, so will take some time to implement.