Putting this number of houses into the few remaining fields that separate the villages of Rockland St Mary & Claxton will disrupt village on many levels. 1. Aesthetically this is an area of beauty on the edge of Rockland Marshes & the South Norfolk Broads. 2. The village roads flowing from Claxton through to Rockland at the bottom of this southerly point are too narrow to handle the increased traffic from 200 properties / likely 400 additional cars. 3. There is significant wildlife in these few remaining fields and the hedgerows that surround this area. Owls, deer, birds of prey, etc. etc.. 4. Water flow: water levels. this area is on one of the few sloped areas in the villages, and acts as good drainage and soil soakaway for the high flood risk tidal becks and floodplane. If this area were to be carpeted in roadways and houses where would this water go / run off too? Properties closeby already have issues getting insurance because of this postcode area (and the environmental agency definition of high risk areas).


Finally IF this were to go ahead, how would the local internet (BT openreach) / telephone exchange capacity handle the additional load? Perhaps the landowner who would look to gain in selling off this land could get behind the local B4RN Community Fibre Broadband initiative, and permit his/her land to be used to route the community funded and installed fibre ducts under/through his/her land by means of improving the lot of the wider community.