I consider the site proposed for development on post office road unsuitable for the following reasons,
1. the land is of good quality agricultural type,
2.the development would ruin an historic view of the beautiful Church.
3.the road is already a busy thoroughfare for traffic in and out of Lingwood and the reduction in the width of the road at the Millennium Green does help to reduce the speed of the traffic, if the road was widened instead of slowing the traffic it would increase the speed dramatically at the very point of the new development.
4.there is already flooding on the post office road and this will only get worse if houses are built on the field as seen in other parts of the country recently.
5.When the new Burlingham dualling is completed the traffic coming into Lingwood will have to use the new junction at the Acle Road turn off bringing the traffic all the way through the village to get to the proposed site in post office road and all the way out again if travelling to great Yarmouth.
6.How is a 2 metre path to be constructed and where ?
7.Why have the two other sites 0449/0067 been dispelled, because of the developments being opposite each other the main services would be easier to install, being that side of Lingwood would reduce the through traffic in Lingwood itself giving quicker and safer access to the main dual carriageway. A new footpath could be easily created and connected to the footpath a short distance away which gives safe walking access to the school. This area lends itself to further expansion in the future. Emergency services would have quicker access to these developments as they will have to use the new junction to gain access to Lingwood when the dualling at Burlingham is completed when coming from Norwich.
8. I have lived in Lingwood for nearly 14 years and have known and been here on occasions for nearly 50 years and in all that time I have seen it expand from a small village into quite a large village but in all that time we still have the same small winding roads coming into the village, I feel instead of increasing traffic, caused by building more and more house we first need to upgrade the roads and address the flooding issues.