Wymondham was regarded as a 'bustling market town'. It is rapidly being suffocated by seemingly unlimited and barely controlled development. Residential developers claim their developments are required to support workers in the area. Industrial developers claim that development is required to provide jobs for people coming to live in the area. This is obviously a self-cycling argument.
This particular development would change the character of Wymondham from a 'bustling market town' in the Norfolk countryside into to a huge commuter area with even more stress on traffic management and the collapsing A11 road surface. We already have 2000 homes built/being built, we have no extra secondary education provision, little heath support and no vehicular infrastructure to support these developments (eg the development on the land to the North and South of Silfeld Road have not provided the promised improvements to the Silfield Bridge). At some time we must pause for breath and decide what Wymondham should be - a 'bustling, historic market town' with some development or an urban carbuncle with 'an old bit'?
I would point out that the development plan shown is misleading. On the development plan provided no existing residences are shown on Verdon's Lane which is described as being turned into a non-vehicular road, yet there are residences. Is my home to become a vehicle-inaccessible home in the middle of a housing estate? I have lived in Wymondham for nearly fifty years. I choose to live 'in the country' with no street lights, mains sewage or mains gas where, as an astronomer and naturalist, I consider it perfect to observe the night sky and local wildlife. I would be horrified if I was to be surrounded in future by an urban sprawl, my view of the countryside destroyed someone's vision of profitable urban 'lego bricks' and view of the beautiful Norfolk night skies destroyed by light pollution. Wymondham deserves more respect than that.