Object

New, Revised and Small Sites

Representation ID: 19236

Received: 14/12/2018

Respondent: Mrs Kim Mackie

Representation Summary:

Objection to more housing due loss of habitat for wildlife, impact on traffic, local services, noise and light pollution, schools, too much development, eye sore, loss of the countryside as we know it.

Full text:

This land is outside the development boundary and will if allowed to proceed will have a massive impact on traffic, wildlife, noise and light pollution, GP's, schools ( both already stated they cannot cope with further increase ) shops etc. The local area is already expanding super fast and the amenities cannot cope with this expansion.

Brickle Road is already a fast rat run every morning and was used to the max during the road closures in Poringland. You take your life in your own hands at almost any time of the day walking or cycling along the road, there has been many a near miss when walking my dog.

Traffic refuses to observe the 30 MPH speed limit as you leave the countryside and enter the residential part of the road. Long Lane is the same, there is a 30 mph at St Georges village hall , but rarely is this adhered to. There are crossroads at the top of Brickle Road crossing to Chandler Road and with the new development there, traffic will automatically increase. To add more homes along here would be a nightmare adding to pollution and dangers joining the main road.There are no footpaths to Lower Stoke and we don't need any, this is countryside, you choose to live here because it's the country. To build more homes impacts everything around it.

This will be a massive blot on the amazing views across the fields. One of the reasons I moved here. Quiet, peaceful and no street lights. You can appreciate the night skies and can hear the wildlife that depends on it.

There will be a loss of habitat for the wildlife. There's an abundance of bats, owls, deer, hedgehog, frogs, toads,geese, swans, herons that use this area to hunt and to migrate. Where do they all go? That's the big bonus living here, to watch and listen to owls, bats herons and hedgehogs literally in your garden. This treat will no doubt disappear.

When does it all end, the more we take away the greater the risk to loose wildlife forever, as we know hedgehogs are already in major decline.

I moved here because it was a rural village, we are fast loosing this and eventually, we will join up with Norwich. It will no longer be a country village but a small town.

How very sad.

The impact is too great on everyone living here, nobody wants to see houses literally in their own back garden.

As they are withdrawing a bus from this route there will be more cars as most homes seem to have 2 or more.

The surface drainage problems already experienced towards the bottom of Brickle Rd are likely to be exacerbated. The ability of the local infrastructure to cope with another 60 homes, roads, drainage education and health services.

SHC has already seen a huge increase in new houses built in the last few years, increasing the number of houses in the village by 30% - far more than originally planned and agreed.

The loss of agricultural land.