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)
Policy VC GIL1: South of Geldeston Road and Daisy Way
Representation ID: 2361
Received: 17/02/2023
Respondent: Williams/Harrod
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
- The development of VC GIL1 (south of Geldeston Road, The Street) will not enhance the rural community. The allocation of the site for up to 35 dwellings would represent gross over-development of a Service Village, particularly when taken alongside the previous development 2022/1897 at Fieldgate Reach (Daisy Way and Tulip Close) which was completed only in summer 2022.
The plan to develop further houses on this flood plain needs to be scrapped. If houses are still to built against all the concrete evidence against it, there should at least be access from a different point i.e. not through The Street and thus not through Daisy Way.
- Within the site assessments of the Village Clusters Plan, sites SN0274 REVA and REVB were seemingly discounted on grounds of flood risk, but also safe access with the assessment stating:
‘Highway safety concern due to adjacent acute blind bend and on-street parking at The Street’
This is also an issue for homes developed on VC GIL1, as the site will require use of the same road to access the wider transport network. It is unclear how these same criteria can be used to discount other sites but result in VC GIL1 as preferred when it has exactly the same issues in terms of safe access and egress. For these reasons this site (VC GIL1) should also be discounted.
- The Environment Agency (EA) recently responded to consultation on an opportunistic planning application for the land south of The Street (2022/1993)- site GIL1- to provide a holding objection on flood risk grounds. EA maps show the site is located in fluvial and tidal Flood Zone 3, the high probability zone.
