I am writing on behalf of my parents Mr & Mrs D Whyborn who live at kimberlin Southwood Road. Their property is the last bungalow on Southwood Road with fields to the rear and the side. According to their deeds there can be no development beyond their boundary line. They have lived in their property for nearly 40 years and are both in their eighty's. The farmer who owns the land has tried 3 times previously to develop and 3 times the plans have been rejected. They are finding this all very distressing.
The land is green belt land and contrary to what the farmer advises the land is farming land. The land has been rented to a local small holder Mr Ronnie Myhill and successfully farmed for the over 30 years.
Beighton is a small hamlet with no amenities. It has no shop, no school, no medical facilities, no post office or even a pub. There is no train service and no daily bus service.
If you were to agree to develop this land with over 30 houses that means it would significantly increase private vehicles having to be used on a daily basis. Environmentally this goes against trying to reduce pollution.
Beighton uses the medical and educational facilities in Acle, where there has been new housing completed last year and planning for more development in the near future.
They will massively increase the already overstretched resources of the medical center. So do we need additional housing in very remote and rural areas?