The site promoted has already been submitted into the previous call-for-sites process and has
been assigned the reference GNLP0485. The site is some 36ha in area and is located north of
Caistor Lane on the northern edge of the urban area comprising the linked villages of Framingham
Earl, Caistor St Edmund, Upper Stoke and Poringland. A Location Plan showing the location of the
site is contained at section 3 of this document.
The land is controlled by Glavenhill and is immediately available/deliverable to meet planned
housing targets and to address existing acknowledged shortfalls in accessible public open space
within this part of the Norwich Policy Area.
This promoted site can accommodate circa. 300 new dwellings, including affordable housing, and
a large area of permanent green infrastructure in the form of the new Caistor Country Park. This
24.5 ha area of new strategic green infrastructure can be delivered early in the Local Plan period
to offset growth impacts from on-going major developments at Caistor St Edmund, Poringland,
Hethersett and Wymondham on the Broads National Park.
The site is within a short walk-time of the Key Service Centre of Poringland and Framingham Earl.
The surrounding area contains a wide range of community facilities, including a primary and
secondary school, village halls and a community centre, GP surgeries, dentist surgery, post office,
library, public houses, a variety of other shops and services and a regular bus service into the City
of Norwich. The quantum of housing and green infrastructure proposed is considered appropriate
to the surrounding urban area.
This new park will be laid out as open space and new woodlands and will be equipped for a high
standard of recreation and leisure. It will have car access and parking accessed directly off Caistor
Lane.
The entire scheme has been designed to meet existing acknowledged green infrastructure
shortfalls in Broadland District and the Norwich Policy Area. It will deliver major public benefits to
existing residents within the linked villages of Framingham Earl, Caistor St Edmund, Upper Stoke
and Poringland. As such it is an appropriate location for the level of housing growth and green
infrastructure proposed.
Although the Country Park would constitute an abnormal cost in scheme delivery terms, the full
cost of laying-out the space, construction of the access road and car parking area, and supplying
and maintaining the play equipment proposed has been factored into the business plan.
The scheme has been devised having regard to planning guidance contained in the National
Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). This development will provide social gain through increased
recreation and sporting opportunities which leads to community development and social
inclusion; economic gains through making the linked settlements of Framingham Earl, Caistor St
Edmund, Upper Stoke and Poringland more attractive to housing and new business. The scheme
will also deliver net environmental gains for nature and improve existing and future residents'
quality of life.