South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
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South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)
SNVC Objective 1 - Meet housing needs
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)
Policy VC HEM1: Land at Millfields
Representation ID: 3256
Received: 01/03/2023
Respondent: Hempnall Parish Council
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Hempnall Parish Council policy states that the current recent development at Willow Drive together with infill (windfall) developments and the hoped for provision of social housing on the site now called VC HEM1 is considered the right amount of new housing for the village. In total these developments will increase the number of houses in the village by around 10% - a manageable amount which will enable the successful assimilation of the new households into the community but not an over large number which would threaten the character and environment of Hempnall.
Notwithstanding our opposition to the whole concept of village clusters Hempnall Parish Council does welcome the fact that none of the other sites (other than VC HEM1) put forward by landowners/developers for inclusion in the SNVC plan have progressed in to the documents that are being circulated in the Regulation 19 consultation and we re-state our strong opposition to the inclusion of any further sites in Hempnall other than VC HEM1.
