Object

Draft Local Plan-Part 2 Site Allocations

Representation ID: 20127

Received: 20/02/2020

Respondent: Mr & Mrs Keith and Sheila Owen

Number of people: 2

Representation Summary:

We made comments about this site in an email dated 3 February 2017 to Broadland Distict Council. These comments still apply with the additional one that the proposed extension to the original site will further exacerbate the problems outlined.
the local primary school and doctor's surgery will be hard pressed to meet the extra demand imposed on them by this development.
the vast majority of traffic leaving the development will pass through the junction on to the B1150 Norwich to North Walsham road, which is regarded by users as dangerous. There is also the question as to whether the railway bridge on Rectory Road is capable of taking heavy goods vehicles both in the short term construction phase and the long term delivery to the development phases. All traffic, including the HGVs mentioned above, wishing to enter the development will have to pass along either Westbourne Road or Rectory Road, which are narrow roads with blind junctions made even less negotiable by parked vehicles. We understand that a virtually identical planning application made in 2013 was turned down by highways on safety grounds - nothing has changed since then with regards to the safety issues on these roads and the B1150 junction
the plans show facility to extend the development in future to the east which if it happens would only exacerbate the problems outlined above. We believe that this facility should be deleted if the proposal reaches the detailed planning stage. We understand that the adjacent field belongs to the same owner as the field for the current proposed development.
with increased numbers of houses now being the Council's priority it is worth noting that the brown field site on the B1150 just north of the village centre offers substantially more plots than the agricultural green field site in Rectory Road. The Government has recently reiterated their call for more housing, albeit on green field land, but bear in mind that in Coltishall we unusually have this brown field site option.

Full text:

The site in question is Rectory Road in Coltishall - we're afraid we don't have your reference number. We made comments about this site in an email dated 3 February 2017 to Broadland Distict Council. These comments still apply with the additional one that the proposed extension to the original site will further exacerbate the problems outlined. A copy is attached.

(Original email contents as follows)
Having inspected the plan for above (Planning application 20170075 rectory road coltishall) we have the following objections to the application:
the local primary school and doctor's surgery will be hard pressed to meet the extra demand imposed on them by this development. We understand that statistics to support this objection are available
the vast majority of traffic leaving the development will pass through the junction on to the B1150 Norwich to North Walsham road, which is regarded by users as dangerous. There is also the question as to whether the railway bridge on Rectory Road is capable of taking heavy goods vehicles both in the short term construction phase and the long term delivery to the development phases. All traffic, including the HGVs mentioned above, wishing to enter the development will have to pass along either Westbourne Road or Rectory Road, which are narrow roads with blind junctions made even less negotiable by parked vehicles. We understand that a virtually identical planning application made in 2013 was turned down by highways on safety grounds - nothing has changed since then with regards to the safety issues on these roads and the B1150 junction
the plans show facility to extend the development in future to the east which if it happens would only exacerbate the problems outlined above. We believe that this facility should be deleted if the proposal reaches the detailed planning stage. We understand that the adjacent field belongs to the same owner as the field for the current proposed development.
with increased numbers of houses now being the Council's priority it is worth noting that the brown field site on the B1150 just north of the village centre offers substantially more plots than the agricultural green field site in Rectory Road. The Government has recently reiterated their call for more housing, albeit on green field land, but bear in mind that in Coltishall we unusually have this brown field site option.