Land between Beech Avenue and Ringland Road is a grossly inappropriate site for any development.

Beech Avenue is a residential street, already experiencing heavy congestion due to traffic using Beech Avenue as a through way to the A47 via Ringland Road. It is clear to anyone living on, or using, Beech Avenue that traffic on both Beech Avenue and Ringland Road has already increased due to the opening of the NDR. This is despite official forecasting having estimated an significant immediate decrease.

Being home to Taverham High School, Beech Avenue sees 100s of children walking and cycling to and from school every day.

The staggered crossroads at Beech Avenue / A1067 / Fir Covert Road already experiences significant tailbacks on both Beech Avenue and Fir Covert Road.

Ringland Road is a narrow, country lane. It is often single width with minimal passing opportunities and minimal visibility. This country lane already experiences traffic levels ridiculously disproportionate to its size and structure and regularly experiences gridlocks as queues of traffic struggle to pass at its narrowest points.

Beech Avenue and Ringland Road are currently over-used as if they were classified unnumbered roads. This is unsafe and unsustainable and plans should immediately be sought to seek a much more practical solution to link the A1067 and A47 and to ensure Beech Avenue and Ringland Road are used as unclassified roads for local traffic only.

The Street is an unpaved residential village road with blind corners and sections of single width. Used by road pedestrians seeking residential access and pleasure walking, the currently 20 MPH speed limit is already largely ignored as vehicles cut through from Ringland Road / Beech Avenue through to Drayton / Costessey. For the safety of residents this road urgently needs measures put in place to reduce traffic use.

Developing the proposed site to the scales suggested would further increase the burden on all of these roads.

What's more, this site has no safe access location for this size development.

The junction of The Street / Ringland Road / Beech Avenue already has 6 site / road junctions within little over 100 metres. Ringland Road, The Street, Beech Avenue and the Taverham Hall entrance all come together at the same point. On Beech Avenue this is immediately followed by site entrances to Beech Court, Beech Avenue Business Park and Wensum Valley Hotel. The existing planning application for this site proposes adding another site entrance to this already chaotic mix.

This proposed development would quite clearly have an impractical, unsustainable, illogical and unsafe impact on the traffic levels for Beech Avenue, Ringland Road and The Street. It could not in any way be considered a sensible choice for development within the GNLP. The newly opened NDR provides an opportunity to create future development with safe access and effective traffic distribution. The natural flow of traffic to employment, service and commercial locations from within future developments would be much better served by sites with immediate access to the NDR. This new piece of infrastructure should be fully utilised as a priority before over-loaded, existing residential areas are further burdened.