Object
New, Revised and Small Sites
Representation ID: 17450
Received: 27/11/2018
Respondent: Heather Fitzsimons
The original proposal for new housing in SHX was for 20 houses and this has been massively exceeded. There has been no investment in infrastructure or roads and increasing traffic has impacted badly on its rural village nature. This particular proposal would be a major development adding to all the above problems mentioned in my full representation and is entirely inappropriate given the level of development that has already occurred in Stoke Holy Cross.
Stoke Holy Cross has already had far too many new houses built. The original proposal was for about 20 homes and this has been far exceeded by about 10 times. The character of the village is being destroyed. The roads are saturated and impacting adversely on local residents quality of life. The village is serving as a distributor Road for the appalling traffic congestion on the A140 and A146. This unacceptable state of affairs is ignored by NCC Highways and SNDC and there has been no investment in traffic calming measures. The CIL money intended to improve the infrastructure including roads and traffic management has not reached the village or indeed rural communities generally. This proposed development is for 50-60 houses which will inevitably discharge significant additional traffic onto the local network between the congested A140 and A146. This will impact on the quality of life of local villagers increasingly involving noise pollution and air quality concerns. Surely the house supply target has now been met in South Norfolk given the unprecedented amount of development that has already occurred. It is time to let local communities absorb the existing increase.