We would like to make the following comments on the GNLP consultation document.

As residents of Costessey we must make the strongest possible objections to GNLP 0039/0206/0238/0243/0284 and 0510. All of these sites are within the Tud Valley which should be protected as an area of landscape importance and, in any case, being a chalk river valley it is NOT suitable for SUDs as was discovered (too late, unfortunately) at the Woodlands site on Townhouse Road, currently being developed by Bennett Homes.

With respect to GNLP 0238, this site has been rejected twice recently (25th May 2016 and 6th December 2018) by South Nofolk DMC as being an unsuitable location for development. The reasons for refusal, ie LVIA and unsuitable highways access won't go away! The Costessey Town Council is, quite rightly, endeavouring to get an amendment to the current River Tud boundary designation with a view to this site being included within the properly recognised valley.

On the question of development in Costessey, over the past ten years or so several thousand homes have been, and are being, constructed at Queens Hills and Lodge Farm. This has had huge consequences for the local highway network, particularly the A1074, with concomitant problems of increased pollution. Doctors surgeries, dentists and schools are all operating at maximum capacity. Ergo no more development in Costessey.

On the Plan generally we would like to know what investigations were carried out which led to proposals to provide 43,000 homes in the Greater Norwich Area by 2036. We would also question where the occupants of these properties would find employment. The once large manufacturing base of Norwich has shrunk to a small number of small businesses operating out of industrial estates. The main white collar employer, Aviva, has greatly reduced its local workforce in recent years. As with Costessey, the current infrastructure in the GNLP Area ie, hospitals, doctors, schools and the highways system are not coping well with the existing population. So heaven knows what will happen if this population increases by another 100,000 people.

The City of Norwich is recognised both nationally and internationally as a beautiful City and there is a serious danger that development on the scale being proposed in the GNLP will result in its character being irretrievably harmed.