Object
Draft Greater Norwich Local Plan – Part 1 The Strategy
Representation ID: 19935
Received: 11/02/2020
Respondent: Miss Jane Pratt
I would like to 'voice' my concerns regarding the planning permission for housing that is being submitted for your consideration now and in the near future. One of your colleagues, at County Hall kindly gave me a lot of paperwork - 65 pages in fact - of sites in Poringland, Framingham Earl and in Bixley, Caistor St Edmund, and Stoke Holy Cross, when I came to County Hall for specific information, on the 5th February. I did read and study each page yesterday and felt completely overwhelmed. It is frightening that hundreds of new dwellings could become part of Poringland Village.
I came to Poringland six years ago, having found a bungalow in a cul-de-sac position, not far from the Bungay Road. There is an area of woodland to one side of me, which is home to pheasants and I have seen one deer. This is very special area to me because it still remains as a part of rural Norfolk. However, as I could see that people were using the wild, un-cultivated area to dump their rubbish, I had a six-foot wooden fence erected to give me privacy. There are four or five other homes which also share a border with this wooded site. Some of the new houses at Milestones, opposite the Octagon Barn, are also quite close to the woodland.
There are so many cars using the Bungay Road now, that make getting in to the city quite a tiresome journey. Our agricultural county has developed so quickly in the last five years, that the roads cannot cope with the high volume of vehicles using them.
Poringland Primary School has over three hundred children attending and it is full. The school cannot take any more children.
Poringland has a very good library and community centre, two medical centres, a Post Office within a very busy One-Stop shop and a supermarket. The village cannot cope with hundreds of new houses. I think all the sites should be refused planning permission.
I would like to 'voice' my concerns regarding the planning permission for housing that is being submitted for your consideration now and in the near future. One of your colleagues, at County Hall kindly gave me a lot of paperwork - 65 pages in fact - of sites in Poringland, Framingham Earl and in Bixley, Caistor St Edmund, and Stoke Holy Cross, when I came to County Hall for specific information, on the 5th February. I did read and study each page yesterday and felt completely overwhelmed. It is frightening that hundreds of new dwellings could become part of Poringland Village.
I came to Poringland six years ago, having found a bungalow in a cul-de-sac position, not far from the Bungay Road. There is an area of woodland to one side of me, which is home to pheasants and I have seen one deer. This is very special area to me because it still remains as a part of rural Norfolk. However, as I could see that people were using the wild, un-cultivated area to dump their rubbish, I had a six-foot wooden fence erected to give me privacy. There are four or five other homes which also share a border with this wooded site. Some of the new houses at Milestones, opposite the Octagon Barn, are also quite close to the woodland.
There are so many cars using the Bungay Road now, that make getting in to the city quite a tiresome journey. Our agricultural county has developed so quickly in the last five years, that the roads cannot cope with the high volume of vehicles using them.
Poringland Primary School has over three hundred children attending and it is full. The school cannot take any more children.
Poringland has a very good library and community centre, two medical centres, a Post Office within a very busy One-Stop shop and a supermarket. The village cannot cope with hundreds of new houses. I think all the sites should be refused planning permission.