Comment
New, Revised and Small Sites
Representation ID: 19429
Received: 14/12/2018
Respondent: Alison Bolster
We have been aware of several agricultural sites in Brooke offered for potential development under the GNLP, and wish to make the following comments.
All the suggested sites fall outside the village development boundary and break out into open country. Brooke has always been valued as a rural village surrounded by farmland, and its setting is important to the contribution it makes to South Norfolk's landscape and character. Norfolk's wildlife sites in the area, such as Brooke Wood, with Culyers Grove, and Kirstead Wood are vulnerable and need protection from any future building.
The conservation area includes the historic centre of the village, and the development boundary has been designed particularly to protect it. All the proposed sites constitute some kind of threat, especially site no. 0 J8K which is the last remaining mediaeval toft belonging to the tenements along The Street.
We recognise that some development to provide reasonable rental accommodation may be necessary, but not on the scale suggested which is much larger than the village can support. Such a large expansion of houses and population would overwhelm the present community, and totally transform one of South Norfolk's most treasured villages into another Poringland dormitory.
Brooke has already exceeded by 50% the development required of it in the most recent local plan
(20 required, 30 built), and as the representative of the local Conservation Group, we feel that our local roads, services and village facilities cannot cope with any further large scale incursions.
We have been aware of several agricultural sites in Brooke offered for potential development under the GNLP, and wish to make the following comments.
All the suggested sites fall outside the village development boundary and break out into open country. Brooke has always been valued as a rural village surrounded by farmland, and its setting is important to the contribution it makes to South Norfolk's landscape and character. Norfolk's wildlife sites in the area, such as Brooke Wood, with Culyers Grove, and Kirstead Wood are vulnerable and need protection from any future building.
The conservation area includes the historic centre of the village, and the development boundary has been designed particularly to protect it. All the proposed sites constitute some kind of threat, especially site no. 0 J8K which is the last remaining mediaeval toft belonging to the tenements along The Street.
We recognise that some development to provide reasonable rental accommodation may be necessary, but not on the scale suggested which is much larger than the village can support. Such a large expansion of houses and population would overwhelm the present community, and totally transform one of South Norfolk's most treasured villages into another Poringland dormitory.
Brooke has already exceeded by 50% the development required of it in the most recent local plan
(20 required, 30 built), and as the representative of the local Conservation Group, we feel that our local roads, services and village facilities cannot cope with any further large scale incursions.