Surlingham as a village is entirely unsuitable for further housing development for the following reasons:

Lack of local facilities - the school is full to capacity and there are no other facilities of note.

Poor infrastructure - the roads around the village are already blighted with speeding cars making it unsafe to walk on them, and the main road out of the village (Bramerton Road) is a deathtrap - narrow, high-sided, unsuitable for HGV's, and again full of speeding drivers. The last thing this road needs is more vehicles using it. Further, what about drainage? It's already a struggle for water to drain in Surlingham without yet more pressure on the drainage system.

The look of the village - Surlingham is a linear village and "filling in the gaps" with housing will completely spoil it how it looks.

Nature - stop using Norfolk's green fields and meadows to build housing. Who wants yet more ugly brick buildings planted on beautiful fields? There are many sites around Norwich to use for this purpose, i.e. ones that are already developed. Why not use brownfield sites? Stop destroying the habitat of flora and fauna with yet more houses. Where else is wildlife to go if you keep building on it?

Environment - this land is in the flood area zone so it's hardly an ideal place to build houses.

NIMBY-ism - I want to look out of my windows and see trees and sky. I don't want to look out onto a housing development. I don't care if this makes me a NIMBY - I'm proud to be a NIMBY if it means stopping this crude, unnecessary development. I moved to Surlingham because it is RURAL. If I wanted to be surrounded by houses, people and facilities I would have moved to Poringland.

All about the money - let's be honest here: the person that owns this land bought it purely for development and as I understand it he does not live in the village. He clearly has no respect for the village and his main objective is to make money. Another NIMBY to my NIMBY?

Access to the site - it is very narrow and inadequate for a housing developemnt.