This wood is a much used space by local residents, visiting public, and wildlife. Beyond this clear usage and value there are several additional points I would like to draw attention to:

1. I would like to propose that the Cringleford Woods should be protected as an Asset of Community Value... It is used by dogwalkers, Parkrunners, runners on a daily basis. People travel to enjoy the woods! Others have already stressed the community use of the woods and I wholeheartedly agree.

2. Overdevelopment of Cringleford... Cringleford is a rapidly changing and increasingly overdeveloped village, and to lose the wood to development as well would render the rural outlook of the village unrecognisable. Good planning should always respect and retain the identity of the village.

3. Car Park for Cringleford Woods and Earlham Park.....The car parking space on Colney Lane is an important car park for access to the woods and to Earlham Park at large. Alternative car parking is available near the Church on Earlham Road opposite Earlham Park - but this is unsafe as people have to cross a speedy section of Earlham Road to access the park. The car park off University Drive near the UEA Law complex is already full, and is some distance from Cringleford Woods. There are no other car parking spaces available and it seems a shame to lose this one.

4. Cringleford Development Plan should be referred to and complied with at all times.

5. Inadequate consultation..... The parishoners of Cringleford Parish Council were not adequately made aware of this planning application. It is no good simply to put a few sun bleached A4 notices up as people will not read them. Also, given that there is a higher than average elderly population in this village this website consultation portal will be unnavigable for many. For those reasons this is NOT a consultation. A consultation is when you make a clear attempt to ask people's opinion.

This planning application should be declined.