Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan - Reg. 19 Pre-submission Addendum

Thank you for consulting National Highways on the abovementioned South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (VCHAP).

National Highways is a strategic highway company under the provisions of the Infrastructure Act 2015 and is the highway authority, traffic authority and street authority for the Strategic Road Network (SRN).

National Highways acknowledge that the proposed VCHAP allocates new sites for housing in South Norfolk’s villages, which will deliver the bulk of the approximately 1,200 new homes that are to be delivered in this village cluster area by 2038. It has been noted that once adopted, the Local Plan document will become a material consideration in the determination of planning applications. Where relevant, National Highways will be a statutory consultee on future planning applications within areas close to the SRN and will assess the impact on the SRN of a planning application accordingly.

Notwithstanding the above comments, we have reviewed the document and note the details of set out within the draft document and we offer No Comment at this stage.