Object
Site Proposals document
Representation ID: 13493
Received: 04/03/2018
Respondent: Mr Michael Notley
1. Beighton is too small with insufficient infrastructure to cope with the population increase from the proposed development.
2. Local health facilities are already overburdened and cannot cope with a population increase.
3. The A47/Cucumber Lane junction at Brundal is already dangerous and cannot cope with increased traffic flow.
4. Southwood Road is too dangerous for children walking to the school bus pickup points.
5. Local schools cannot absorb additional pupils.
6. The High Road/Southwood Road junction is the primary lorry route to and from the British Sugar factory. Increased traffic will create a grave risk to road users.
1. Beighton is a small rural community with limited infrastructure. Almost all residents wish to keep it this way.
2. The local health centres at Acle and Brundall are already over populated with patients, and understaffed in terms of doctors, support staff and facilities. Neither can support the increase in patient numbers this development, and others in the Broadland area, will create.
3. The roundabout at the A47 Cucumber Lane, Brundall juction is currently dangerous mainly due to the heavy volume of traffic and driver frustration at the queues to get onto this junction. The situation will be made worse by the increase in traffic travelling to/from Norwich/Beighton if this development goes ahead.
4. Traffic from the proposed development will exit onto Southwood Road. This is a narrow single carriageway road (already dangerous due to excessive speed)and the additional vehicles and pedestrians that will result from the proposed development will exacerbate the dangers. Children walking to and from the school bus pick up points will be especially vulnerable. Parts of Southwood Road are without a pedestrian footpath.
5. Local schools are at full capacity in terms of pupil numbers. There is no plan to increase the number of school places that will be required if the developemt goes ahead.
6. The junction of Southwood Road with High Road at Beighton cannot safely cope with the increase in vehicle traffic that will result from the proposed development. High Road is the primary access route for hundreds of lorries per day travelling to and from the British Sugar factory at Cantley during the 'sugar beet campaign'. The proposed development will create a risk to life.