Support

Representation ID: 3939

Received: 05/09/2024

Respondent: NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System

Proposed sites in Barford and Swardeston will increase pressure on already constrained GP practices in Hethersett and Mulbarton, these Practices are part of the Humbleyard GP practice group. There are discussions currently ongoing between the Council and GP practices regarding mitigation for the amount of population growth these areas have already seen and that will be happening in the near future.

The ambulance service, EEAST, are in a unique position that intersects health, transport and community safety and does not have capacity to accommodate the additional growth resulting from the proposed development combined with other developments in the vicinity. This development is likely to increase demand upon existing constrained ambulance services and nationally set blue light response times. The capital required through developer contribution would form a proportion of the required funding for the provision of capacity to absorb the patient growth and demand generated by this development. Any funding would be used towards the capital cost of providing new additional ambulances and/or new additional medical equipment, which for an ambulance service is their physical infrastructure, and/or new additional parking space(s) for ambulances at existing ambulance stations.

Object

Representation ID: 3985

Received: 26/09/2024

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - LLFA

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The LLFA considers one element which forms part of this SNDC Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan Regulation 19 Pre-submission Addendum consultation document (Policy SWA2REV: Land on Main Road, Swardeston) to be unsound when assessed against the tests for soundness set out in Paragraph 35, Criteria C: Effective and Criteria D: Consistent with National Policy of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) for the following reasons:

• In Policy SWA2REV and its supporting text, there is an absence of references made to the consideration of surface water and flood risks associated with the site and any future development of it. Furthermore, the absence of the consideration of flood risk in the Policy text for SWA2REV is considered inconsistent with the approach adopted by SNDC as part of the Village Clusters Housing Allocations document for other proposed site allocations when compared to other sites with similar flood risk issues. This means the Policy fails to support the principles set out in the NPPF (19th December 2023) in respect of the consideration of flood risk management.

• The LLFA are not objecting on the grounds of the principle of the development of the site, but on the level of information required within Policy SWA2REV relating to flood risk and the consideration of flood risk management and its supporting text that will guide the site’s future deliverability.

Object

Representation ID: 3992

Received: 30/09/2024

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Amend archaeology criterion to read

Norfolk’s Historic Environment Service is consulted prior to application to determine the need for any archaeological assessments.

Support

Representation ID: 4015

Received: 02/10/2024

Respondent: Bennett Homes

Agent: Lanpro Services Ltd

The Site is identified as ‘VC SWA2REV’ within the South Norfolk VCHAP (Regulation 19) and is located to the south-east of the junction between Main Road and Gowthorpe Lane, Swardeston. The Site comprises of agricultural land and is subject to planning application 2023/0908 (made by Bennett Homes) for full planning permission for a development of 43 new dwellings and associated external works.

The proposed amendments include significant changes to paragraph 6.21-6.27 which provide the context to Policy VC SWA2REV. The policy wording is then amended, amongst other changes, to alter the number of dwellings that the site is allocated for from ‘approximately 30 dwellings’ to ‘approximately 40 dwellings’.

Bennett Homes fully supports the uplift in dwellings from approximately 30 to 40, and considers that the allocation of the Site supports the principle of application 2023/0908 which Bennett Homes are anticipating will be heard at Planning Committee in Autumn 2024 with an officer recommendation of approval.

Notwithstanding this support for Policy VC SWA2REV as amended through this current consultation, Bennett Homes maintain that the submitted application for 43 dwellings would have been acceptable under previous iterations of this policy and that the effect of the proposed amendment to Policy VC SWA2REV would not result in any increase in actual housing numbers in Swardeston (as these would have been delivered regardless of the proposed amendment). This provides further justification for increasing the number of dwellings from 20 to 30 on Policy VC SWA1 as outlined above on the basis that this would represent an actual increase in the number of homes that the VCHAAP would deliver.

Bennett Homes also note that the Policy VC SWA2REV requires “The provision of a 2.0m wide footway along the site frontage…” (my emphasis). The site has a frontage with both Main Road and Gowthorpe Lane, but the provision of a footpath on the latter would not be necessary to facilitate the development of the Site. Accordingly, Bennett Homes suggest that the first bullet point is amended to read:

“The provision of a 2.0m wide footway along the site frontage with Main Road…”

Support

Representation ID: 4177

Received: 07/10/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water Services

The site is on the edge of the Swardeston Common WRC catchment. There is capacity for the proposed level of growth as there is sufficient dry weather flow headroom available at the WRC. The developer would need to engage with Anglian Water regarding connections for water supply and wastewater in the usual way. We have no objection to the removal of the policy requirement relating to wastewater capacity due to current capacity availability.

Swardeston Common WRC has been identified as a nutrient significant plant and will require phosphate and nitrogen removal upgrades to technically achievable levels by 1st April 2030. This will reduce the amount of nutrient mitigation required for developments occupied after this date.