We object to the proposed Brooke development (GNLP2119) on this site for the multiple reasons detailed below. We also wish to reference the previous proposal submitted in 2012 that was rejected as the site at was not considered suitable for development, and the situation has not changed since.
* Access from High Green to proposed site GNLP2119 would be extremely dangerous as it is just as you are leaving the village and on a dangerous bend, so visibility of other traffic would be extremely poor
* Proposed development GNLP2119 is at the far end of the of the village and is away from the village centre and its main services - Post Office, farm shop, garage, pub, bus stop, school, village hall
* Any further development near High Green would add more traffic to this road. It is already used as a rat run for cars wishing to avoid traffic jams caused by Framingham Earl school in the mornings
* More traffic on High Green would pose additional danger to school children going to and from Brooke Primary School
* Site GNLP2119 is near a small copse/wood at the end of a cul de sac in Astley Cooper Place, this is used by bats, tawny owls, woodpeckers and other birds and so any development would be detrimental to nature.
* The fields and woodland at site GNLP2119 is also the home to other wildlife - deer, hares, barn owl
* The woodland on site GNLP2119 and the copse presently acts as a sound barrier to the mini industrial area at Spurgeon's farm comprising of garage, cabinet maker and firewood trader
* The site shape would result in a very linear type of development, and would cause a greater impact on open countryside.
* Additional housing and roads on site GNLP2119 would create additional noise and disturbance to what is currently a quite area of the village
* The houses in Astley Cooper Place that back onto site GNLP2119 already have restricted daylight and sunlight and therefore any housing would impact those houses & gardens further
* Drainage of gardens within the Astley Cooper House development is poor, and so the drainage of the proposed site is also likely to be poor and cause problems to the existing developments
* The view across the fields from houses in Astley Cooper Place and High Green would be impeded by the development on site GNLP2119, leading to loss in value