A decision on this site is considered premature and prejudicial to the Diss & District Neighbourhood Plan (in which Scole Parish is included), which will seek to allocate sites across the Plan Area according to local need as well as viability and connectivity to transport links and services. Comments on this site are made without prejudice to the above and are to formally note any planning or other reasons that should be taken into future consideration. Scole Parish Council also comments that:
1) The proposed housing density is not commensurate with a village environment, especially considering how close to the required land supply the region is.
2) Access to the site is very poor. Indeed highways objected to proposals that two properties (part of the proposed development on site 2016/0165) would have their entrance facing onto Low Road.
3) Low Road frequently floods.
4) Our opinion is that this site sits outside the settlement Boundary.