South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)

Support

Representation ID: 3090

Received: 03/03/2023

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Strategic Planning Team

Norfolk County Council notes that the South Norfolk Village cluster plan has included supporting text regarding safeguarded mineral resources where sites are under the threshold of 1 ha and therefore the Minerals and Waste Policy CS16 (or any successor policy) does not apply. Therefore, the support text referring to "The Minerals and Waste Authority has identified the site as being underlain, or partially underlain, by safeguarded sand and gravel resources. As such development on the site must comply with the relevant minerals and waste safeguarding policy in the Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Plan" can be removed.

Support

Representation ID: 3091

Received: 03/03/2023

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Strategic Planning Team

Norfolk County Council notes that the South Norfolk Village cluster plan has included supporting text regarding safeguarded mineral resources where sites are under the threshold of 1 ha and therefore the Minerals and Waste Policy CS16 (or any successor policy) does not apply. Therefore, the support text referring to "The Minerals and Waste Authority has identified the site as being underlain, or partially underlain, by safeguarded sand and gravel resources. As such development on the site must comply with the relevant minerals and waste safeguarding policy in the Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Plan" can be removed.

Object

Representation ID: 3134

Received: 03/03/2023

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Strategic Planning Team

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The existing GP Surgery access is not sufficiently wide to enable it to be upgraded to an adoptable standard estate road. Visibility splays and footway improvements would also be necessary to enable safe access; these safety improvements require third party land, resulting in an undeliverable allocation.

Access between 24 and 26 The Street may be appropriate subject to suitable design. However, there is concern that suitable visibility splays may not be achievable within highway and may require third party land resulting in an undeliverable allocation.

Support

Representation ID: 3137

Received: 03/03/2023

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Strategic Planning Team

From a landscape perspective the County Council does not have any additional comments to make from the Reg 18 comments previously given, and there are no modifications felt necessary to make the plan legally compliant or sound in relation to landscape matters.

Support

Representation ID: 3138

Received: 03/03/2023

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Strategic Planning Team

Ecology - the County Council is pleased to note that The Assessment of Sites was supported by a Technical Consultation with both internal and external consultees on environmental protection issues, including ecology.
As previously noted during the Regulation 18 consultation, Norfolk County Council is part of the County Wildlife Site (CWS) partnership. Where sites are within the vicinity of CWS and increased recreational pressure may be seen; Norfolk County Council may look to seek Planning Obligations and/ or use of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funds in order to mitigate against these pressures, including any soft landscaping design/ species selection to reflect the composition of the CWS. Where adjacent to a CWS, a suitable buffer should be incorporated within the design. There may also be other pressures which will be assessed at the time of application which may lead to Green Infrastructure requests through Planning Obligations. Norfolk County Council jointly manages, with Norfolk Wildlife Trust, a growing network of Roadside Nature Reserves (RNRs). Where proposals abut an RNR, careful consideration would need to be given to the location of site access points and the application must demonstrate that the RNRs will not be adversely impacted by the proposal. If the site is adjacent to an existing or candidate RNR, opportunities to enhance the RNR should be incorporated into the scheme design or contributions discussed by means of Planning Obligations/ CIL.

Support

Representation ID: 3139

Received: 03/03/2023

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Strategic Planning Team

HRA Report (Dec 2022): It is noted that water impacts were identified for a number of hydrologically connected Habitats sites and that policy wording in respect of nutrient neutrality issues at the Broads SAC and Broadlands Ramsar site has not yet been agreed and incorporated in the GNLP.
The report therefore concludes that it is not currently possible to rule out adverse impacts on the integrity of the Broads SAC and Broadland Ramsar site due to nutrient enrichment impacts without this policy in place, but that once the GNLP policy has been updated to address this issue, the VCHAP HRA will be updated to reflect this.

Object

Representation ID: 3140

Received: 03/03/2023

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Strategic Planning Team

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The current South Norfolk Local Plan includes this site as allocation allocation SPO 2. Requirement 2 of that policy states "Pedestrian refuge should be provided on the western side of School Lane to improve pedestrian access to the school.

The Highway Authority would acknowledge that the site is an existing allocation and consent for 7 dwellings was granted as per 2016/0627.

The current proposed policy VC SPO 3 includes a requirement to ensure "Off-site highway works to include improvements to the provision for pedestrian safety in the immediate area of the development site, details of which to be agreed with the Highways Authority and the LPA." The less specific policy requirement is noted.

The ability of the development to provide suitable measures to make it acceptable to the Highway Authority has not been demonstrated.

Notwithstanding the earlier allocation, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is considered that School Lane is substandard in nature, without scope for development to provide appropriate highway improvements. Should the existing permission expire, the Highway Authority would not wish to support re-allocation of site.

Support

Representation ID: 3142

Received: 03/03/2023

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Strategic Planning Team

In relation to the question of capacity in schools currently and potential for child movement. Norfolk is currently seeing a decline in its birth rate which is impacting the entry year into school and subsequent years, this will continue to take effect over the next 2-3 years and it is anticipated the higher numbers transitioning through Primary are moving to the latter part of their schooling which will ensure capacity is available in schools as time moves on.

Some sites still remain with a level of pressure and act as an overflow to some strategic areas where there are plans to develop a school site, which will release this pressure in the future.
The impact of movement between counties is often of net effect, often a similar level of children move in and out of the county which does not put any significant pressure on surrounding schools. We continue to work with our admission colleagues to ensure pupils have the appropriate places and will get a place of their choice.

Information based on the education landscape can be found in our Schools Local Growth and Investment Plan 2023. This gives detail of the areas of growth and decline across the county which helps to inform our capital and educational priorities. Schools Local Growth and Investment Plan 2023 (norfolk.gov.uk)

Support

Representation ID: 3143

Received: 03/03/2023

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Strategic Planning Team

Cllr Margaret Dewsbury (Hingham) has indicated that if the development is agreed there would be a need for a reduced speed limit and a pedestrian crossing of some sort.